Color Builder/Palette

[Freckles]

How do I make a special palatte, and save it?&nbsp;&nbsp;At MS KB, they talked about a &quot;color builder&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;Never heard of it.&nbsp;&nbsp;Now what? <p>Deb Koplen<br><a href=mailto:deb.koplen@telops.gte.com>deb.koplen@telops.gte.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

 

[elizabeth]

Go into any object that has a color-related property, such as the Background property of a form. Click on that property and you'll see a little <b>...</b> button next to it. Click on that and you'll be in the Color Builder. I think the rest may be self-explanatory.

 

[Freckles]

That I do all the time, just never heard it called a &quot;Color Builder&quot;.&nbsp;&nbsp;So if I select certain colors, adjust them to what I want, copy them to &quot;custom colors&quot;, can I then save that particular &quot;palatte&quot; of custom colors to a special palatte file?&nbsp;&nbsp;How?&nbsp;&nbsp;Because I would at least want to use these colors on charts and forms in the same database, and possibly other databases. <p>Deb Koplen<br><a href=mailto:deb.koplen@telops.gte.com>deb.koplen@telops.gte.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

 

[elizabeth]

Sorry, I've never needed to create an entirely new palette.&nbsp;&nbsp;I don't know that building custom paletes is an Access capability. I just save my custom colors to my default palette and use them like that. What little documentation I've seen on this suggests you can use the PaletteSource property of a form or whatever to specify an existing palette.

 

[Guest_imported]

Maybe this is an absurd idea, but what about:<br><br>Create a form and name it frmPalette.<br>Place a number of labels with no caption on it.<br>Put favorite colors into these labels.<br>Put informative captions into labels beneath colors.<br><br>When you want to use the &quot;palette&quot; open it and reduce its<br>size enough to cohabit the desktop with the new object and use the format painter to function as your color applicator.