Color sight deficient: Background color number ? 1

[webcats]

Ok, I admit it: I'm color-blind. Not completly; I can see most colors, it's just the red-green-brown ones I get confused.

Now the problem: My pointy-haired boss wants the background color to match the company color. The help just says "The BackColor property contains a numeric expression that corresponds to the color used to fill a control's or section's interior".

If I could find out what the color is, I could ask the Marketing dept what the hex # for the color is and match it.

Anyone know how to find the hex # for the background color?

Thanks.

 

[sillysod]

http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/reference/color_codes/

for hex codes, not that access will accept them

any reason why you cant just right click and select fill/backcolour and choose from palette

or if there arnt enough colours there you can click the [...] next to where you see that number and choose/create a custome colour

 

[webcats]

I'm using custom colors, but I still can't match the color.

I've asked other people to look for me, but still can't get an exact match. If I could find out that the hex #CC9900 equals the color number 360634 in Access, for example, then I could get the hex number from Marketing and use the conversion to match the color exactly.

 

[sillysod]

ok then, how about opening up your company logo in ms paint

then use the pick colour tool, so you now have your company colour on your brushin paint

now goto colours > edit colours > define custom colours

now since you got the colour on your brush it should tell you the RGB mix and hue etc, then just copy those values into access

 

[webcats]

That works. Thanks!