Cell fill color

To fill cells with color, follow these steps:

1.Select the cell or range of cells whose fill color you want to change.

2.To color cells with the last color used for the cells fill earlier, on the Home tab, in the Font group, click  Fill color.

3.To fill the cells with a different color, click the arrow to the right of the  Fill color button.

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4.In the color selection pane that opens, specify the cells fill 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.

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.

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 filling the cells with this color.

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 in which you want to color the cells. 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.

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

Remove the fill color

To remove the cell fill, follow the steps below:

1.Select the cell or cell range you want to cancel the fill.

2.On the Home tab, in the Font group, click the arrow to the right of the  Fill color button.

3.In the color selection pane, click No fill.