Text color

To change the font color of text, follow these steps:

1.Specify the text for which you want to change the font "p_xo_list_ind_text" style="">•To change the font color for all the text in a cell, select the cell or select all the text within it.

•To change the font color for a text fragment located in a cell, switch to the cell editing mode and select this fragment.

•To change the font color in one word, switch to the cell editing mode and place the cursor on this word or select it entirely.

2.To select the last color that was applied to the font, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click  Font color.

3.To select a different font color, click the arrow to the right of the  Font color button.

4.In the color selection pane that opens, specify the font color in one of the following ways:

•Choose a color from one of the color sets provided.

•Specify the color code manually.

•Copy the color using the eyedropper.

Choose a color from the color sets provided

The following colors sets are available in the color selection pane:

–Theme colors: This block contains the color palette of the current document's theme.

–Standard colors: This block contains the colors that users most often choose when formatting a document.

–Recent colors: This block contains up to the last ten colors that you selected when formatting the document earlier. The Recent colors set is displayed if you have selected at least one color.

Hovering the mouse cursor over any color displays the value of that color in the RGB color model. For example, RGB 192,80,77.

Left-click a color to select it.

The color will be added to the Recent colors set and checked in the color selection pane. The color selection pane will close. The font of the text will be colored in the selected color.

Specify the color code manually

If you do not find a suitable color in the listed sets of the settings pane, you can specify its code manually:

1.Click More colors.

2.In the Select color window that appears, specify the desired color as a HEX code or in RGB format.

3.Click OK.

The color you set manually will be added to the Recent colors set and checked in the color selection pane. The color selection pane will close. The font of the text will be colored in the selected color.

Copy the color with an eyedropper

You can use the eyedropper to simultaneously copy a color from a text or object located in the main window's workspace and apply that color to the font of the selected text.

To copy a color using the eyedropper, follow these steps:

1.Click  Eyedropper in the color selection pane. The pane will close and the cursor will look like a crosshair for color selection.

2.Hover the cursor over the color you want to apply to the selected text. For more accurate color selection, refer to the area to the right of the cursor. It displays the color of the pixel that the cursor is currently hovering over.

3.Left-click the color.

The font of the selected text is colored in the specified color, and the cursor returns to its standard appearance. The specified color is added to the Recent colors set and checked in the color selection pane.

If you want to disable the eyedropper without selecting a color, press Esc.