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Word 2007 standard blue
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I'm having trouble finding the standard blue color in Word 2007. When I open the font color options from the Home ribbon menu, under Standard Colors there's one marked as "blue" but it doesn't look like the standard blue. In fact, when I checked out its RGB value it as R = 0, G = 112, B = 192. I've read somewhere that standard blue is R = 0, G = 0, G = 255. Is this true? Is the blue used for hyperlinks in most Office applications standard blue? |
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Word 2007 standard blue
Hi,
Maybe some folks would like to engage in a long debate about what exactly "standard blue" is or isn't. However, since Microsoft has an exact definition for blue, I don't think that there is much to debate here. The colors used in Word are defined in the WdColor enumeration in MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb237558.aspx. The 4th constant in this enumeration is called wdColorBlue and has the decimal value 16711680. When I broke this number down into an RGB value, I got RGB(0, 0, 255). Thus I agree with you that Microsoft's definition of "blue" is RGB(0, 0, 255). I then created a custom color in the UI with this RGB value and applied it to some text. To my eyes this is the color of my hyperlinks, and I could not find it among the predefined colors available in the UI. If you want to format your text with this color, you could define a custom color, or you could select the text and run the following macro. Sub ColorMeBlue() Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue Sub -- Hope this helps, Pesach Shelnitz "Jubinell" wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble finding the standard blue color in Word 2007. When I open the font color options from the Home ribbon menu, under Standard Colors there's one marked as "blue" but it doesn't look like the standard blue. In fact, when I checked out its RGB value it as R = 0, G = 112, B = 192. I've read somewhere that standard blue is R = 0, G = 0, G = 255. Is this true? Is the blue used for hyperlinks in most Office applications standard blue? -- Jubinell . |
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Word 2007 standard blue
The tooltips on the palette in Word 2007 do name one of the 'Standard
Colors' as "Blue" and this is not the same as the fixed wdColorBlue. This is clearly confusing but is made more so by the fact that the tooltips are dynamic and of little value - I don't know what algorithm is used to determine them, but I presume it is similar to the 'nearest color' logic used in some other situations. Treat the tooltips as a guide and no more. -- Enjoy, Tony www.WordArticles.com "Pesach Shelnitz" pesach18(AT)hotmail.com wrote in message ... Hi, Maybe some folks would like to engage in a long debate about what exactly "standard blue" is or isn't. However, since Microsoft has an exact definition for blue, I don't think that there is much to debate here. The colors used in Word are defined in the WdColor enumeration in MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb237558.aspx. The 4th constant in this enumeration is called wdColorBlue and has the decimal value 16711680. When I broke this number down into an RGB value, I got RGB(0, 0, 255). Thus I agree with you that Microsoft's definition of "blue" is RGB(0, 0, 255). I then created a custom color in the UI with this RGB value and applied it to some text. To my eyes this is the color of my hyperlinks, and I could not find it among the predefined colors available in the UI. If you want to format your text with this color, you could define a custom color, or you could select the text and run the following macro. Sub ColorMeBlue() Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue Sub -- Hope this helps, Pesach Shelnitz "Jubinell" wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble finding the standard blue color in Word 2007. When I open the font color options from the Home ribbon menu, under Standard Colors there's one marked as "blue" but it doesn't look like the standard blue. In fact, when I checked out its RGB value it as R = 0, G = 112, B = 192. I've read somewhere that standard blue is R = 0, G = 0, G = 255. Is this true? Is the blue used for hyperlinks in most Office applications standard blue? -- Jubinell . |
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Word 2007 standard blue
Or create a character style to add the blue colour.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Pesach Shelnitz wrote: Hi, Maybe some folks would like to engage in a long debate about what exactly "standard blue" is or isn't. However, since Microsoft has an exact definition for blue, I don't think that there is much to debate here. The colors used in Word are defined in the WdColor enumeration in MSDN at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb237558.aspx. The 4th constant in this enumeration is called wdColorBlue and has the decimal value 16711680. When I broke this number down into an RGB value, I got RGB(0, 0, 255). Thus I agree with you that Microsoft's definition of "blue" is RGB(0, 0, 255). I then created a custom color in the UI with this RGB value and applied it to some text. To my eyes this is the color of my hyperlinks, and I could not find it among the predefined colors available in the UI. If you want to format your text with this color, you could define a custom color, or you could select the text and run the following macro. Sub ColorMeBlue() Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue Sub Hi, I'm having trouble finding the standard blue color in Word 2007. When I open the font color options from the Home ribbon menu, under Standard Colors there's one marked as "blue" but it doesn't look like the standard blue. In fact, when I checked out its RGB value it as R = 0, G = 112, B = 192. I've read somewhere that standard blue is R = 0, G = 0, G = 255. Is this true? Is the blue used for hyperlinks in most Office applications standard blue? -- Jubinell . |
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