Comments on: Using Colors in Excel Charts

By: Create a color palette for Excel charts using a palette generator

Create a color palette for Excel charts using a palette generator — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:52:56 +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: Jon Peltier

Jon Peltier — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 12:17:57 +0000

Mark -

I haven’t tested everything, but my commercial apps will work in 2010. Customers with earlier licenses may need an update.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:22:37 +0000

Interesting post. I’m just downloading the Office 2010 Beta demo – will your tools work with that version, I wonder??

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.