Help with cell colour

From a spreadsheet I was using a while back and now updating, I had some
cells which had a pattern and a `fill` colour in them, I am sure I did this
from Format cells /Pattern /Colour.
It was a light browny beige colour but there does not appear to be a match
for it on the drop down color menu so when I take the nearest colour to it I
have two different shades. I cant fathom this out, have I maybe accessed a
tranclucent colour from somewhere that would make the older ones appear
lighter. I could change them all to the new slightly darker shade (but
prefer the lighter) but would still like to know what I have done.

Any ideas, I hope I have explained ok.

Sounds like a custom colour. If you go to Tools>Options>Color, you should
see some extra colours in the dialog, maybe it is there. If so, you could
select it, and click>Modify>Custom and get its RGB value. You could then
select a standard colour and set that to the RGB value, thus creating an
easily accessed colour.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

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"S S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> From a spreadsheet I was using a while back and now updating, I had some
> cells which had a pattern and a `fill` colour in them, I am sure I did
this
> from Format cells /Pattern /Colour.
> It was a light browny beige colour but there does not appear to be a match
> for it on the drop down color menu so when I take the nearest colour to it
I
> have two different shades. I cant fathom this out, have I maybe accessed a
> tranclucent colour from somewhere that would make the older ones appear
> lighter. I could change them all to the new slightly darker shade (but
> prefer the lighter) but would still like to know what I have done.
>
> Any ideas, I hope I have explained ok.
>
>

Thanks Bob thats it sorted.


"Bob Phillips" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Sounds like a custom colour. If you go to Tools>Options>Color, you should
> see some extra colours in the dialog, maybe it is there. If so, you could
> select it, and click>Modify>Custom and get its RGB value. You could then
> select a standard colour and set that to the RGB value, thus creating an
> easily accessed colour.
>
> --
> HTH
>
> Bob Phillips
>
> (remove xxx from email address if mailing direct)
>
> "S S" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> From a spreadsheet I was using a while back and now updating, I had some
>> cells which had a pattern and a `fill` colour in them, I am sure I did
> this
>> from Format cells /Pattern /Colour.
>> It was a light browny beige colour but there does not appear to be a
>> match
>> for it on the drop down color menu so when I take the nearest colour to
>> it
> I
>> have two different shades. I cant fathom this out, have I maybe accessed
>> a
>> tranclucent colour from somewhere that would make the older ones appear
>> lighter. I could change them all to the new slightly darker shade (but
>> prefer the lighter) but would still like to know what I have done.
>>
>> Any ideas, I hope I have explained ok.
>>
>>
>
>