Comments on: Using Colors in Excel Charts

By: Data Visualization News» Blog Archive » Better Color Palettes for Your Excel Charts [Video Tutorial]

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:17:56 +0000

[...] Peltier wrote two interesting posts about managing the Excel color palette (here and here) and Stephen Few shares some Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts (PDF). [...]

By: Creating an Excel color palette using an online palette generator

Creating an Excel color palette using an online palette generator — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:39:43 +0000

[...] Peltier wrote two interesting posts about managing the Excel color palette (here and here) and Stephen Few shares some Practical Rules for Using Color in Charts (PDF). [...]

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 04:36:12 +0000

Sian – Go to the Tools menu > Options > Colors tab, and click the Reset button.

By: Sian

Sian — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:52:25 +0000

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to reset to the default Excel 2003 chart colors. I didn’t backup beforehand as I didn’t really know how and as much as I like the different colours, I am under strict instructions, however I don’t know how to get the colours back.

Thanks

By: Cami

Cami — Fri, 08 May 2009 12:23:55 +0000

Thank God for helpful people like you – just wanted to say thank you – if I hadn’t have googled this I’d have spent ages trying to figure out how to get a certain colour!!

By: James Cooper

James Cooper — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:49:38 +0000

Thanks for the article, download and link to ColorBrewer. Very useful and educational!

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:56:30 +0000

Bob -

Create a custom palette, and apply it to Book.xlt in your XLSTART directory.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:24:30 +0000

I have a dumb question, how can I set the default pallet that is used for all new workbooks in Excel 2003.

Does it go in book.xlt?
Does it go in personal.xls?

Thanks

By: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:09:26 +0000

Nile - Thanks for the thermal gradient palette. I should try to include it in my little toy palette formatter. Fred - I really haven't spent enough time with Office 2007's color system to understand how it works. I've used it enough to be confused, but not enough to be frustrated. There are a couple of blog posts by Tony Jollans which discuss colors in Office 2007: Colours in Word 2007, Part 1 Colours in Word 2007, Part 2 Tony has played with colors in Office 2007 enough to be frustrated, and finally enough to be knowledgeable.

By: Fred L Johnson

Fred L Johnson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:56:39 +0000

I’m still finding that the RGB function in VBA does not produce the color I specify using Excel 2007. The macro I wrote assigns the Interior color of a cell based upon variable values of R, G, and B. Excel 2003 seems to pick the nearest in the palette, but Excel 2007 seems to do the same thing. Is this a bug?