You get 56 colors in any workbook.
But you can change those 56 by:
tools|options|color tab|click modify
You can read lots more about how excel works with colors at David McRitchie's
site:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/colors.htm
Bob Tourkow wrote:
In Excel, is there a way I can lighten the fill colors in a cell? That is,
can I "customize" the colors in the "standard" Excel fill color palette to
lighten them?
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Dave Peterson