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RGB of highlighted Excel button
Using Excel 2002.
Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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RGB of highlighted Excel button
cosmin.com - Color Detector, Freeware program to detect the color
of any pixel on the screen. Simply run the program, point the mouse cursor anywhere on the screen, and the color detector window will display the RGB values, HTML hex code, and the color name of the color of the pixel pointed to by the mouse cursor. Note that Excel uses ColorIndex, and RGB values will be changed to a ColorIndex value so unless you have an exact match you probably won't like the results of Excel's approximation. More information on Color in Color Palette and the 56 Excel ColorIndex Colors http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/colors.htm --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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RGB of highlighted Excel button
Interestingly, it does *not* appear to be a system color. The value seems to
be equal to or close to &H00FFC0C0&, 16761024, or RGB(192,192,255) -- Vasant "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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David, Vasant,
Thanks, the ColorDetector did the trick. The freeware program I had couldn't catch this. The RGB is (198, 211, 239) or as a long 15717318. Strange indeed there is no system color for this. RBS "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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On my system ColorDetector shows the color to be RGB(168,175,194) or
12758952 ... so it is clearly dependent on the system, the video display driver, etc. Like you, I'm very surprised that it is not a system color. -- Vasant "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... David, Vasant, Thanks, the ColorDetector did the trick. The freeware program I had couldn't catch this. The RGB is (198, 211, 239) or as a long 15717318. Strange indeed there is no system color for this. RBS "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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I needed the color for buttons on an Excel user form. The color comes indeed
out very differently on different systems. As there is no system color for this I suppose this can't be helped. Or would there be a way to determine the RGB color of the hightlighted button on different systems? I suppose this won't be worth the effort if it were at all possible and it would be best to pick the middle color that does reasonably well on all systems. RBS "Vasant Nanavati" <vasantn *AT* aol *DOT* com wrote in message ... On my system ColorDetector shows the color to be RGB(168,175,194) or 12758952 ... so it is clearly dependent on the system, the video display driver, etc. Like you, I'm very surprised that it is not a system color. -- Vasant "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... David, Vasant, Thanks, the ColorDetector did the trick. The freeware program I had couldn't catch this. The RGB is (198, 211, 239) or as a long 15717318. Strange indeed there is no system color for this. RBS "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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You are going to get different colors depending on how many
bits you use for colors -- you will see the difference and many windows if not all of them. If you are trying to simulate the same color with the default 56 ColorIndex colors -- forget it. The colors are probably choose to make non user colors look different from colors used by the system and by Excel, You wouldn't want to choose the color used for cell selection, for instance. -- --- HTH, David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001] My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... I needed the color for buttons on an Excel user form. The color comes indeed out very differently on different systems. As there is no system color for this I suppose this can't be helped. Or would there be a way to determine the RGB color of the hightlighted button on different systems? I suppose this won't be worth the effort if it were at all possible and it would be best to pick the middle color that does reasonably well on all systems. RBS "Vasant Nanavati" <vasantn *AT* aol *DOT* com wrote in message ... On my system ColorDetector shows the color to be RGB(168,175,194) or 12758952 ... so it is clearly dependent on the system, the video display driver, etc. Like you, I'm very surprised that it is not a system color. -- Vasant "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... David, Vasant, Thanks, the ColorDetector did the trick. The freeware program I had couldn't catch this. The RGB is (198, 211, 239) or as a long 15717318. Strange indeed there is no system color for this. RBS "RB Smissaert" wrote in message ... Using Excel 2002. Could anybody tell me what the RGB color is of a highlighted button on the main Excel toolbar? This is the color that it changes to when the mouse moves over it. It is something like RGB(195, 215, 235), but I can't figure out what it is exactly. Alternatively a system color would do. Thanks for any help. RBS |
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RGB of highlighted Excel button
"RB Smissaert" wrote in message
... Or would there be a way to determine the RGB color of the hightlighted button on different systems? I suppose this won't be worth the effort if it were at all possible I agree ... I think we're well past the point of diminishing returns on this issue <g. -- Vasant |
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