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Image taken from the Umicore Colour Toolbar.
 

Image taken from the Comverse Colour Toolbar.
 

The Colour Toolbar is designed for companies who have their own corporate colour palette. The menu within the Colour Toolbar allows you to include any number of colours and/or of tints of a colour. You can then arrange, group and name the colours as you choose, including divider lines to separate out the groups of colours. 

The toolbar works in a similar way to the standard PowerPoint colour tools, e.g., select an object, then chose from Fill, Line, Text or Background, then select from the drop-down menu the required colour or tint. 

Once a colour has been used once, you can click the last used colour swatch to reapply the same colour; this is a colour square to the left of the menu.

The toolbar will work with all general PowerPoint objects, including: text, lines, fills, slide backgrounds, tables and cells within tables, auto-shapes, action buttons, grouped objects, flow chart objects, block arrows, call-outs and can be applied to single selected objects or multiple selected objects.

In addition, our software has been digitally signed (with a third party commercial signature) to ensure that it is Spyware and virus-free, and can also be used with the Microsoft Office security setting set at maximum.

The tool has been fully tested and is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint: 97, 2000, XP and 2003 running on any standard version of Windows.

Purchasing the fully working version of the Colour Toolbar 

Purchase the fully working Single user version: £7.00 ($13.00, €10.00, ¥1470.00 approx.) Click the button above to buy the single user version using a Credit Card or your PayPal account. Once an online payment has been made, you will immediately be redirected to a web page giving your activation code. This price is for a 1 person and 1 computer user licence, you have the right to use this copy of the software in an unlimited way for your own personal use and to install it onto one computer. In addition to make copies of the software for your own personal back-up or safe keeping.  Important: If you are having problem with the payment system then email: info@the-in-shop.com or colin.m@in-support.com.

Purchase the fully working version 10 user version: £48.00 ($96.00, €73.00, ¥11900.00 approx.) Click the button above to buy the 10 user version using a Credit Card or your PayPal account. Once an online payment has been made, you will immediately be redirected to a web page giving your activation code. This price is for a 10 person and 10 computer user licence, you have the right to use this copy of the software in an unlimited way for your own personal and business use and to install it onto 10 computer. In addition to make copies of the software for your own personal back-up or safe keeping. Important: If you are having problem with the payment system then email: info@the-in-shop.com or colin.m@in-support.com.

Adding your own colours to the Colour Toolbar

Adding your own colours to the menu is simple. Type the colour names and RGB or Hex value into the options box, as shown in the illustration below.

Image taken from the Umicore Colour Toolbar (shown above) - options box.
 

Please Note: When using Hex or web colour values, replace the RGB values with the Hex or web value e.g. '>>Warm Red, #FF0000'.

Corporate versions of the toolbar

Corporate users can pre-set the colours and distribute the config file along with the 'Colour Toolbar.ppa', if desired they can add the '/LOCKED' command to the config file, preventing users from changing the colours in the Colour Toolbar.

Alternatively, major corporate clients can have the colours pre-programmed and locked into the ppa, removing the need for any config files. For multi-licence, un-limited corporate licence or a custom version of this tool, please contact:
info@the-in-shop.com

Install the Free 30 day trial version of the Colour Toolbar

A fully working trial version of the Colour Toolbar is provided free to let you test the product before buying.  You will be asked to give your email address to activate the demo version. This will only be used for our internal records and will NEVER be sold, exchanged or given to any third party company.

To automatically install from this web page, click the link below:
Install Colour Toolbar.exe

When installing from the web, you should see two pop-up boxes asking if you wish to 'Run' the installer, in both cases click the 'Run' button, then follow the onscreen instructions. If you are unable to install directly from the web, then you can use the link below to download the 'Colour Toolbar.ppa' and manually load it.

To download and manually install, click the link below: 
Download 'Colour Toolbar.ppa' zipped file.

Once downloaded you will need to unzip the Add-in and then load the Add-in, 
as explained in the illustrated step-by-step guide to installing PowerPoint Add-ins.

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Use colour in PowerPoint to add credibility and legibility to your. Stick to your corporate colour scheme, which in most cases will involve a maximum of. The New Corporate Colours Collection: Quick Microsoft® PowerPoint® Tip: Create flowcharts and diagrams easily PowerPoint using the many AutoShapes. PowerPoint Colour Tips Use colour in PowerPoint to add credibility and legibility to your presentation Choose a colour scheme that suits your subject matter. E.g. don’t use bright greens and reds if you're talking about road traffic statistics. Blacks, greys and yellows are more appropriate. Similarly, dark blue, gray and white might be fine for a financial presentation, but they're not PowerPoint suitable for a national florist chain. Choose high-contrast colours. A presentation is ineffective if no one can read the text on your slide. Use high-contrasting colours to prevent losing slide text in the background. E.g. White text on a black background has high contrast and is much easier to read than dark blue text on a black background.

Don't blind people with white backgrounds White backgrounds, while great for printing, are a headache when projected onto a large screen (sunglasses anyone?). St PowerPoint icky to your corporate colour scheme, which in most cases will involve a maximum of 4-5 colours. And if you don't have a corporate identity - use the colours in your logo plus one or two complimentary colours. But for our corporate template, we want to make sure that the major elements in our slide ... The Goddess of Colour Schemes is PowerPoint. Fine-Tuning Colour Schemes. The Font colour tool, as shown in Figure we see a set of eight colour swatches to choose from directly in the Font colour tool, along with a choice for More Colours.

The Font colour tool dialog box shows the eight basic colour swatches that are currently set in the slide's Colour Scheme. The default Title text colour right now is the darker blue, but we could be sure that if we left this colour for a corporate template, PowerPoint someone somewhere would say something like, "That's not exactly the shade of blue we use in our logo!" We could use these swatches to try to match it visually, but it would apply only to this one slide, and even then, it wouldn't truly be exact.

But for our corporate template, we want to make sure that the major elements in our slide are covered by the Colour Scheme: Background, Text and lines, Shadows, Title text, Fills, Accent, Accent and hyperlink, Accent and followed hyperlink. The secret is in the RGB values, or the numerical values assigned to the shade of red, green, PowerPoint and blue in any colour. Unfortunately, PowerPoint has no colour picker or eyedropper tool that lets us suck a colour out of an image (like our logo) and make sure that this precise colour is what we'll be using for Title text in our template. More important, in the Colour tab of the Colour palette, the RGB values are available: When you return to the Edit Colour Scheme dialog box for our Custom Colour Scheme. Those RGB values from the logo's trim colour into the settings, you will exactly match the colour in the logo for the default colour for all of your Title text in the new custom Colour Scheme.

PowerPoint Figure 2-15 Applying your new Custom Colour Scheme to all slides ensures that all elements in the subsequent slides based on that Design Template have the same colour attributes.

In this case, all we've done is apply a slightly different shade of dark blue for the title. To see more dramatic results, apply any other Colour Scheme, but remember to Undo (CTRL+Z) after you see the results.

A professional PowerPoint designer would then assign other colours from the collateral material or logo to the specific elements in the slide that should reflect them. This would create complementary colours for fills, lines, and other text. Accents are similar to line colours and would change the main solid block line above the Title text in this template and also the boundary line that highlights the PowerPoint

Grid. So now let's imagine that we've matched our PowerPoint colours exactly, assigned them within our Custom Colour Scheme according to their RGB values, and applied the Colour Scheme to our newly created Design Template. Avoiding Surprises: Anti-Colour Scheme Strategy. The Colour Scheme basic eight colours are the key to this issue. Whenever you use the basic eight Colour PowerPoint. If you still need to use complementary colours, choose the corresponding swatches under More Colours that match those in the basic eight. To make this a bit easier, whenever you select More Colours and choose a Custom colour, it will appear as the ninth, tenth, or successive colour in your colour swatches under dialog boxes like Text or Fill colour. By creating a second row of More Colours that correspond to the basic eight (using the RGB values again), you can get the best of both worlds—match the Colour Scheme of your template and make sure nothing happens to the colours if the slide finds itself in another presentation down the PowerPoint road.

You want to customize your slides with the client’s corporate colour. How do you quickly grab the colour and use it in your slide? Page 6 reveals how

 You create slides for others and they keep messing them up when they customize the content. How can you protect some of the content but still allow customization? Page 9 will give you relief from this headache.

Want to use your logo to fill a pie slice, bar or column in a graph to make your PowerPoint slide even more meaningful? See page 12 for this advanced technique. You’ve linked charts from Excel, now you want to link PowerPoint.

HTML Colour Picker & Hex Colour Code more colours in PowerPoint. PowerPoint PhotoShop, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), The Colour Picker add-in makes picking and setting your colours a breeze, allowing you to pick colours directly off the screen and automatically setting the Fill, Text, Outline, Shadow or Background colours of selected shapes or slides. HTML Colour Picker and Hex Colour Code Finder '1.0.0.9' ... Colour codes manager, all HEX and RGB formats Colour codes manager, all HEX and RGB formats (HTML PowerPoint Fast Colour Codes has all the popular HEX and RGB formats: HTML, PhotoShop, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Fast Colour Codes is PowerPoint.

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Use Color in PowerPoint to add credibility and legibility to your. Stick to your corporate Color scheme, which in most cases will involve a maximum of. The New Corporate Colors Collection: Quick Microsoft® PowerPoint® Tip: Create flowcharts and diagrams easily PowerPoint using the many AutoShapes. PowerPoint Color Tips Use Color in PowerPoint to add credibility and legibility to your presentation Choose a Color scheme that suits your subject matter. E.g. don’t use bright greens and reds if you're talking about road traffic statistics. Blacks, grays and yellows are more appropriate. Similarly, dark blue, gray and white might be fine for a financial presentation, but they're not PowerPoint suitable for a national florist chain. Choose high-contrast colors. A presentation is ineffective if no one can read the text on your slide. Use high-contrasting colors to prevent losing slide text in the background. E.g. White text on a black background has high contrast and is much easier to read than dark blue text on a black background.

Don't blind people with white backgrounds White backgrounds, while great for printing, are a headache when projected onto a large screen (sunglasses anyone?). St PowerPoint icky to your corporate Color scheme, which in most cases will involve a maximum of 4-5 colors. And if you don't have a corporate identity - use the colors in your logo plus one or two complimentary colors. But for our corporate template, we want to make sure that the major elements in our slide ... The Goddess of Color Schemes is PowerPoint. Fine-Tuning Color Schemes. The Font Color tool, as shown in Figure we see a set of eight Color swatches to choose from directly in the Font Color tool, along with a choice for More Colors.

The Font Color tool dialog box shows the eight basic Color swatches that are currently set in the slide’s Color Scheme. The default Title text Color right now is the darker blue, but we could be sure that if we left this Color for a corporate template, PowerPoint someone somewhere would say something like, "That's not exactly the shade of blue we use in our logo!" We could use these swatches to try to match it visually, but it would apply only to this one slide, and even then, it wouldn't truly be exact.

But for our corporate template, we want to make sure that the major elements in our slide are covered by the Color Scheme: Background, Text and lines, Shadows, Title text, Fills, Accent, Accent and hyperlink, Accent and followed hyperlink. The secret is in the RGB values, or the numerical values assigned to the shade of red, green, PowerPoint and blue in any Color. Unfortunately, PowerPoint has no Color picker or eyedropper tool that lets us suck a Color out of an image (like our logo) and make sure that this precise Color is what we'll be using for Title text in our template. More important, in the Color tab of the Color palette, the RGB values are available: When you return to the Edit Color Scheme dialog box for our Custom Color Scheme. Those RGB values from the logos trim Color into the settings; you will exactly match the Color in the logo for the default Color for all of your Title text in the new custom Color Scheme.

PowerPoint Figure 2-15 Applying your new Custom Color Scheme to all slides ensures that all elements in the subsequent slides based on that Design Template have the same Color attributes.

In this case, all we've done is apply a slightly different shade of dark blue for the title. To see more dramatic results, apply any other Color Scheme, but remember to Undo (CTRL+Z) after you see the results.

A professional PowerPoint designer would then assign other colors from the collateral material or logo to the specific elements in the slide that should reflect them. This would create complementary colors for fills, lines, and other text. Accents are similar to line colors and would change the main solid block line above the Title text in this template and also the boundary line that highlights the PowerPoint

Grid. So now let's imagine that we've matched our PowerPoint colors exactly, assigned them within our Custom Color Scheme according to their RGB values, and applied the Color Scheme to our newly created Design Template. Avoiding Surprises: Anti- Color Scheme Strategy. The Color Scheme basic eight colors are the key to this issue. Whenever you use the basic eight Color PowerPoint. If you still need to use complementary colors, choose the corresponding swatches under More Colors that match those in the basic eight. To make this a bit easier, whenever you select More Colors and choose a Custom Color, it will appear as the ninth, tenth, or successive Color in your Color swatches under dialog boxes like Text or Fill Color. By creating a second row of More Colors that correspond to the basic eight (using the RGB values again), you can get the best of both worlds—match the Color Scheme of your template and make sure nothing happens to the colors if the slide finds itself in another presentation down the PowerPoint road.

You want to customize your slides with the client’s corporate Color. How do you quickly grab the Color and use it in your slide? Page 6 reveals how

 You create slides for others and they keep messing them up when they customize the content. How can you protect some of the content but still allow customization? Page 9 will give you relief from this headache.

Want to use your logo to fill a pie slice, bar or column in a graph to make your PowerPoint slide even more meaningful? See page 12 for this advanced technique. You’ve linked charts from Excel, now you want to link PowerPoint.

HTML Color Picker & Hex Color Code more colors in PowerPoint. PowerPoint PhotoShop, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), The Color Picker add-in makes picking and setting your colors a breeze, allowing you to pick colors directly off the screen and automatically setting the Fill, Text, Outline, Shadow or Background colors of selected shapes or slides. HTML Color Picker and Hex Color Code Finder '1.0.0.9' ...  Color codes manager, all HEX and RGB formats Color codes manager, all HEX and RGB formats (HTML PowerPoint Fast Color Codes has all the popular HEX and RGB formats: HTML, PhotoShop, C++, Delphi, Visual Basic, Access, Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Fast Color Codes is PowerPoint.

A must for any company with a branded corporate color palette.

The Color Toolbar is designed for companies who have their own corporate color palette. The menu within the Color Toolbar allows you to include any number of colors and/or of tints of a color. You can then arrange, group and name the colors as you choose, including divider lines to separate out the groups of colors. 

The toolbar works in a similar way to the standard PowerPoint color tools, e.g., select an object, then chose from Fill, Line, Text or Background, then select from the drop-down menu the required color or tint. 

Once a color has been used once, you can click the last used color swatch to reapply the same colour; this is a color square to the left of the menu.

The toolbar will work with all general PowerPoint objects, including: text, lines, fills, slide backgrounds, tables and cells within tables, auto-shapes, action buttons, grouped objects, flow chart objects, block arrows, call-outs and can be applied to single selected objects or multiple selected objects.

In addition, our software has been digitally signed (with a third party commercial signature) to ensure that it is Spyware and virus-free, and can also be used with the Microsoft Office security setting set at maximum.

The tool has been fully tested and is compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint: 97, 2000, XP and 2003 running on any standard version of Windows.