If you've tried out - or are using - Office 15, you will notice that there has been a change to Office Theme Colors and they are different than those we became accustom to seeing. Can we get back to those Theme Colors that we've been familiar with? Yes! Follow along with Episode #1675 as Bill shows us how to get those colors back for Office 15.
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MrExcel Podcast is sponsored by Easy-XL Where is it Wednesday?
Where is it Wednesday - Excel 2013 edition episode 1675: Office Theme Colors. All right, so back in Excel 2013 we had these six colors that were used again and again and again.
They were in the Cell Styles drop-down with the different accent colors here.
They were in the fill colors; one, two, three, four, five, six and they're in the -- you know just these colors were used over and over and over again and those were something called the Office Themes.
So I went into themes in Office those are the six colors you got.
So from Excel 2007 to Excel 2010, potentially six years-- the last six years we have been creating documents with those themes and in Excel 2013 the Office theme offers a different set of six colors.
So the blue changed a little bit, the red changed to an orange, the green changed to a grey, the purple changed to a yellow, this aqua changed to a dark blue, still not RGB Blue and then the orange changed to a green.
All right, so I'm not here to argue; are these better or are those better?
The point is we have had an office theme for the last six years and they've been using these colors and now all of a sudden when we start to use the Office theme we're getting these colors.
What's going on?
All right, and if we come here to themes we are still using the Office theme.
The office theme changed and there is no theme here called old Office.
That would have been really nice to have a theme called old Office but now it's just Office and we are stuck with the new colors -- not necessarily.
If you want to go back to the old colors, you come here to the Colors drop-down and then the colors drop down they gave us a set of colors called Office 2007 to 2010.
Funny, isn't it?
All right, so choose those colors and go back to Excel 2010 and you have the same colors --just about; that you had in 2010.
Frustrating that they only put it in the colors and didn't create a theme to make it easy kind of-- kind of sneaky the way that they did it.
Now speaking of RGB blue why is there still no true blue here?
To get a true pure blue you have to go to more colors, then you have to go to the custom drop-down and we'll change to 0 red, 0 green and 255 blue to get that blue which is different than all the blues that they're giving us anywhere.
That's the true pure blue.
They give us a pure red, they give us a pure green but there's no pure blue.
What does Microsoft have against just plain blue?
All right, well, hey I want to thank you for stopping by.
We’ll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
Where is it Wednesday - Excel 2013 edition episode 1675: Office Theme Colors. All right, so back in Excel 2013 we had these six colors that were used again and again and again.
They were in the Cell Styles drop-down with the different accent colors here.
They were in the fill colors; one, two, three, four, five, six and they're in the -- you know just these colors were used over and over and over again and those were something called the Office Themes.
So I went into themes in Office those are the six colors you got.
So from Excel 2007 to Excel 2010, potentially six years-- the last six years we have been creating documents with those themes and in Excel 2013 the Office theme offers a different set of six colors.
So the blue changed a little bit, the red changed to an orange, the green changed to a grey, the purple changed to a yellow, this aqua changed to a dark blue, still not RGB Blue and then the orange changed to a green.
All right, so I'm not here to argue; are these better or are those better?
The point is we have had an office theme for the last six years and they've been using these colors and now all of a sudden when we start to use the Office theme we're getting these colors.
What's going on?
All right, and if we come here to themes we are still using the Office theme.
The office theme changed and there is no theme here called old Office.
That would have been really nice to have a theme called old Office but now it's just Office and we are stuck with the new colors -- not necessarily.
If you want to go back to the old colors, you come here to the Colors drop-down and then the colors drop down they gave us a set of colors called Office 2007 to 2010.
Funny, isn't it?
All right, so choose those colors and go back to Excel 2010 and you have the same colors --just about; that you had in 2010.
Frustrating that they only put it in the colors and didn't create a theme to make it easy kind of-- kind of sneaky the way that they did it.
Now speaking of RGB blue why is there still no true blue here?
To get a true pure blue you have to go to more colors, then you have to go to the custom drop-down and we'll change to 0 red, 0 green and 255 blue to get that blue which is different than all the blues that they're giving us anywhere.
That's the true pure blue.
They give us a pure red, they give us a pure green but there's no pure blue.
What does Microsoft have against just plain blue?
All right, well, hey I want to thank you for stopping by.
We’ll see you next time for another netcast from MrExcel.
