Lucky - strongly suggest you look at the reply given to you by p45cal before
changing system properties. In addition you can simply 'reset' the default
56 colour palette (manually or programmatically)

In Excel 2007, although the 56 colour palette still works (sort of),
workbooks now use "Themes", see PageLayout, Themes and/or Colors (on the
left of the ribbon)

Regards,
Peter T



"Lucky" wrote in message
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Many thanks, JLG. Your comment is concise and will save me hours of
digging through big books. Do you know of a way in VBA to reset these
colors to a Windows "default"? Lacking that, is there a way I can get
a list of RGB settings for the Windows default color scheme?
Regards,
Lucky

On Nov 29, 6:15?pm, "JLGWhiz" wrote:
Color schemes are set in the control panelAppearance and
ThemesDisplayAppearanceAdvanced

When you change it there, it changes for all applications. ?But different
monitors might display the same colors with slightly different hues.

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