Alas, my perfect light gray for drawing subtle gridlines on the screen was invisible on my printer!?

I’m now using a lite version of your SFew2, where only your 21 most safely modded color indices vary from classic Excel defaults. It’s refreshing not to have any more chart series (barely) show up as yellow by default.

Thanks again for providing the Palette Chooser utility.

I also change the grays in the Excel 2003 color palette to lighter shades, and make the dark green a little less dark. Working with colors in 2007 is much easier and much harder all at the same time. It’s easier because you can choose any color, whether it’s in your theme or not. Harder because you can’t globally change a customized color by simply changing the color assigned to a color index.

I’d probably have used your Palette Chooser and/or the BonaVista utility toolbar(s) and/or the Color Brewer palettes routinely with Excel 2003 if they were compatible with my personal macros dating back to at least Excel 95 to format input cells and shapes my preferred ways — macros which need to work with default color indices. Especially a light yellow, which is 19, right?

It finally dawned on me that another perfectly adequate light yellow, NOT from the default fills, uses index 36. You’d been teaching the merits of changing the default fills and marker colors and leaving most of the other colors alone in classic Excel, and I hadn’t integrated that with how I use Excel . . . until today. Better later than never?