"OldHand" nobody@nowhere wrote in message
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I know this one isn't new, but that isn't a reason not to protest. There
seems to be a conspiracy at M$ to drive the largest possible number of
people MAD.
When you select or inspect the colour of text or another item in Word
2007, the colour codes (rgb) are no longer diplayed in this version.
Apparantly, this is because Word has been dumbed down for the benefit of
people who've never seen a computer.
If you want to choose a colour that matches another part of the document
or an imported item, you need a large number of mouse clics. Even then it
is far from obvious that the codes displayed initially under More (or
custom) Colours are those corresponding to one of the M$ fixed colours
(I'm translating from the .fr version). Since there is plenty of space in
the standard colour selection box, why can't we see the codes directly?
People who don't need the information would probably not notice it's
there.
Regards
I have never used a MS product to determine the color code of an area of a
picture or field. I use Pixie from
http://www.nattyware.com/?m31. It is a
small free program the instantly can tell you the RGB, HTML, CMYK or HSV
codes.