Custom Colors

To work with Custom Colors, click on the Manage Color Themes button at the top of the Template Browser. This will open the Color Theme Manager, as shown below.

Click the More Colors button to add a custom color to the Custom Colors palette.

You can add a custom color in the following ways:

1. Select a color from the Color Wheel
   • Click an area in the color wheel.
   • Click and drag the slider for a lighter or darker shade of the selected color.
   • Click Add to add the color.
     
     
2. Select a color from Color Picker
   • Click and drag the color picker to select a color from anywhere on the screen. The color swatch on the right-hand side of the Custom Colors window indicates the color that your Color Picker is on.
   • Release the mouse to select that color.
   • Click Add to add the color.
     
     
     

     Create a Company-Branded Theme It's easy to create a company-branded theme using your company's colors. Just use the Custom Color Picker to extract colors from your company's email or website, and then add these colors to a new Color Theme. You can then save the Color Theme using your company name. You can even export the Color Theme and send it to all other OfficeReady 4.0 users within the company so that your documents' colors always sync up.

     
     
     
3. RGB:
   • Set values between 0 and 255 for Red, Green, and Blue to create a color based on these values. The color swatch on the right-hand side of the Custom Colors window indicates the current color.
   • Click Add to add the color.
     
     
4. HSB:
   • Set the Hue, Saturation and Brightness of your color by entering values into the appropriate fields. The color swatch on the right-hand side of the Custom Colors window indicates the current color.
   • Click Add to add the color.