How to choose the Color Palette in Microsoft Office

This post give hints about how to choose the color palette in Microsoft Office.

Understanding the Function of each Colors

When you define the color palette in Microsoft Office, you need to choose 12 different colors.

Colors to be set:

1. Text/background – dark 1
2. Text/background – clear 1
3. Text/background – dark 2
4. Text/background – clear 2
5. Emphasis 1
6. Emphasis 2
7. Emphasis 3
8. Emphasis 4
9. Emphasis 5
10. Emphasis 6
11. Hyperlink
12. Visited hyperlink

When painting charts, the emphasis colors 1-6 are used in ascending order, only when needed. For example, if only 2 colors are used within the chart, only emphasis colors 1 and 2 are used.

Only 8 colors are shown in the color palette preview. They are Dark 1 (TBC), Clear 1 (TBC) and Emphasis 1-6.

Colors that you want to see more in your palette should have a lower number.

Emphasis 1 is the one used as default in Word headings. Think which color do you want to see in a document as heading when selecting the color for emphasis 1.

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