How to Put a Palette in Excel on a Mac
Excel workbooks don't look very exciting. They usually come in black, white and shades of gray --- none of which are lively colors for a report or presentation to your boss, customers or shareholders. Luckily, Excel for Mac 2008 allows you to create and import your own custom color palettes into the program. Using interesting and exciting colors for your reports is easier than ever before.
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Instructions
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Open Excel on your Mac and open the Formatting palette. Select a theme with colors that you want to use for your workbook.
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Select "Excel" and click on "Preferences." Select a color from the standard color palette that you want to replace. Click "Modify."
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Select a color from the color wheel to replace the standard color, or click on the magnifying glass and select a color from the theme colors menu. Click "OK."
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Open the workbook with the color palette that you want to use and then create a new workbook. Click on the new workbook and open "Preferences" in the Excel menu. Select "Color" and click on "Copy Color." Choose the document with the color palette you just modified and click "OK." This imports the color palette from one document to the other.
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