It must be hard to find terminology for new features that does not clash with existing terminology and yet stillĬonveys some meaning. When I have time and inclination I may expand the scope to include backwardĬompatibility issues with Excel and/or PowerPoint, but currently this is limited to Word. Implementations of colour (Excel had a limited palette, for example, and PowerPoint had a simpler colour scheme

Previously, however, the three applications had rather different Here will also apply to Excel and PowerPoint. Themes feature is common to Word 2007, Excel 2007, and PowerPoint 2007 and, consequently, much of what is written This monologue details some aspects of the use of colour in Word Documents, particularly in VBA code. Has a bigger impact on VBA (or other code) solutions that work with Word documents. The inclusion of this feature has some effects in the User Interface but In anything coloured with reference to it. If a change is made to the colour scheme, that change is reflected immediately A colour can still be specified asĪn absolute (RGB) colour but it can also be specified as a colour, or as an adjustment to a colour, belonging to aĬolour scheme, itself part of a Theme. Word 2007 has a new colour model, which forms part of the new Themes feature. The only way to change a colour was to change that specific number, either by letting Word do itīased on selections through the UI or directly in VBA (or other) code. However specified, once chosen it wasįixed as an RGB value, and stored, both in Word's workspace and in the Document, as a number representing Whatever the source of a colour, it was specified at that source by picking from a glittering dialogue or byĮxplicitly specifying the amount of red, green, and blue which made it up. In a Style or be given a colour directly some direct colour formatting could also be applied with an early

Components of documents could take their colour from one specified From Word 2000, with a couple of exceptions,Īny component of a Word Document which could be coloured, could be given any of the 16 million or so coloursĪvailable in the so called RGB colour space. Improved in Word 2000 and has, until 2007, remained relatively stable. In common with many other applications, Word used to have rather limited colour palettes, but the situation was

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