Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Discovering the RGB Value of a Custom Text Color.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 25, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
Steve has text in a document that has been formatted in a custom color. He wants to use Find and Replace to change the color throughout, but doesn't know how to specify the custom color in the Find box. He wonders if there is a way to discover the RGB values of a custom color.
There are several ways you can discover the RGB value of a color used on some text. Here's one way:
- Select the text whose color you want examine.
- Choose Font from the Format menu or press Ctrl+D. Word displays the Font tab of the Font dialog box. (See Figure 1.)
Figure 1. The Font tab of the Font dialog box.
- Click the Font Color drop-down list and then choose More Colors. Word displays the Colors dialog box.
- Make sure the Custom tab is displayed. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 2. The Custom tab of the Colors dialog box.
- At the bottom of the dialog box you can see the RGB values for the text color.
Word also provides another way to display the RGB colors of a text selection: All you need to do is select the text and press Shift+F1. Word displays the Reveal Formatting pane at the right side of the document. This pane shows all the formatting applied to the selected text. In the Font section of the pane you can see an indication of the RGB colors of the text.
You can also use a third-party utility to figure out the RGB colors of your text. Most of these utilities don't really care about the text, they simply show the color of any particular pixel of the screen that you point at. Here are two suggestions for such utilities:
http://instant-eyedropper.com/http://colorcop.net/
Once you have the RGB values for the existing color, you can easily use Find and Replace to make the change. Just follow these steps:
- Press Ctrl+H. Word displays the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
- Make sure that there is nothing in either the Find What or Replace With boxes.
- If there is any formatting specified for either Find What or Replace With, put the insertion point in the appropriate box and click No Formatting.
- Place the insertion point in the Find What box.
- Click Format | Font. Word displays the Font tab of the Find Font dialog box.
- Click the Font Color drop-down list and then choose More Colors. Word displays the Colors dialog box.
- Make sure the Custom tab is displayed.
- At the bottom of the dialog box you can set the RGB values for the text color you want to find.
- Click OK to dismiss the Colors dialog box.
- Click OK to dismiss the Find Font dialog box.
- Place the insertion point in the Replace With box.
- Repeat steps 5 through 10 to set the desired color for the replacement. (You don't have to repeat the same steps if you want to replace the color with some other permutation of formatting. Use the controls in the dialog box to set what you want.)
- Click Replace All.
Finally, if you need to change a lot of colors in this manner, you may want to use a macro to do the actual changes. The following macro can make the change in a single pass:
Sub ChangeCustomColor() CFC = Selection.Font.Color Selection.WholeStory With Selection.Find .Format = True .Text = "" .Font.Color = CFC .Replacement.Text = "" .Replacement.Font.Color = RGB(0, 0, 255) ' Change to BLUE font End With Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAllEnd Sub
Before you run the macro, change the RGB setting in the line that controls the replacement color. Then, select the text that uses the custom color you want to change. When you run the macro, all the text that uses the same color as the selected text is modified to whatever color you specified in the macro itself.
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FAQs
Right click on the text and choose Font from the context menu (or just hit ctrl-D) Click the down arrow to the right of the Font color setting, then click More Colors. Click the Custom tab, and you'll see the RGB value of the colour.
How can you calculate the RGB value of the color? ›
The typical approach to averaging RGB colors is to add up all the red, green, and blue values, and divide each by the number of pixels to get the components of the final color.
How do I find out the color of text in Word? ›
You can change the color of text in your Word document. Select the text that you want to change. On the Home tab, in the Font group, choose the arrow next to Font Color, and then select a color.
How do I extract RGB values from an image? ›
To extract RGB values, we use the imread() function of the image class of matplotlib . Empty lists, r , g and b have been initialized. For the purpose of finding dominant colors, we will be using the following image.
How do I find the RGB code of a color in PowerPoint? ›
Color names and RGB values are shown when you mouseover a color. There are four sections or groups on the Color Palette toolbar: Group 1: Black, white and clear/ no color. Group 2: Dynamic - this group populates with the color scheme from the theme or template of your open PowerPoint presentation.
How do I find the RGB color code in Excel? ›
Determining the RGB Value of a Color in Excel
- Step 1: Open the Excel Workbook.
- Step 2: Select the Cell with the Color.
- Step 3: Open the Format Cells Dialog Box.
- Step 4: Select the Fill Tab.
- Step 5: View the RGB Value.
To find its code, click the 'Edit Colors' button. In the window that opens, you will see the RGB value for the color. If you need the HEX code, you can use Google to convert the RGB value to HEX code. While this method is easy to use and doesn't require extra apps to be installed on your system, it's a bit tedious.
What are the 4 values in RGB? ›
RGB and RGBa Colors
The first value represents the red value, the second represents the green value, and the third represents the blue value. RGB colors are opaque by default. RGBa adds a fourth value for the alpha channel, which sets the opacity of the color.
How do I filter text by color in Word? ›
On the Data tab, click Filter. in the column that contains the content that you want to filter. Under Filter, in the By color pop-up menu, select Cell Color, Font Color, or Cell Icon, and then click the criteria.
How do I get RGB values from a PDF? ›
The GIMP can easily tell you the RGB or CMYK values of any color in a pdf. When you open the pdf, it will offer to treat each page as a layer.
...
- Open any of the links.
- Open your PDF.
- Move your windows that you can see the PDF and the website.
- Use "Pick Color" / "Get Color" and select the color from your PDF!
We all know that RGB cannot be printed. This colour space is designed for screens and other self-lit systems. For printing purposes, there's CMYK and this is how the world works.
How to extract RGB from hex? ›
Hex to RGB conversion
- Get the 2 left digits of the hex color code and convert to decimal value to get the red color level.
- Get the 2 middle digits of the hex color code and convert to decimal value to get the green color level.
RGB(red, green, blue)
How do I find the hex code of a color in Windows? ›
If you want to find hex code of color on the screen, you need to right-click the icon in the taskbar and select Hex. Next, you need to click the icon again and move the tool to the color you want to pick on the screen. Then, you can see the hex code of the color.
How do I enter a hex color code in Word? ›
Pull down the menu by Fill and choose More colors. Then click on the button for "sliders" and choose RGB sliders. From there you can enter the numbers; however the numbers are in decimal so you'll have to convert your HEX to decimal.
How do you read a paint color code? ›
The letters represent where the color lands on a color wheel. So, Snow Shadow Blue is in the Blue Green hue family. The number represents where that color falls within the hue. Snow Shadow Blue's 50 means that it is in the middle of the Blue Green hue.
Is there an RGB function in Excel? ›
Excel VBA RGB Color. RGB can also be called red, green, and blue. So, one may use this function to get the numerical value of the color value. This function has three components as a named range, and they are red, blue, and green.
How do I find custom colors in Excel? ›
Click Page Layout > Colors, and pick the set of colors you want. The first set of colors is used in the current theme. To create your own set of colors, click Customize Colors. For each theme color you want to change, click the button next to that color, and pick a color under Theme Colors.
What is RGB and how do you identify it? ›
RGB (red, green and blue) refers to a system representing the colors used on a digital display screen. Red, green and blue can be combined in various proportions to obtain any color in the visible spectrum. The RGB model uses 8 bits each -- from 0 to 23 -- for red, green and blue colors.
What is RGB mean value? ›
RGB means Red Green Blue, ie the primary colors in additive color synthesis. A RGB file consists in composite layers of Red, Gree and Blue, each being coded on 256 levels from 0 to 255. For example, black corresponds to the levels R=0, G=0, B=0, and white corresponds to the levels R=255, G=255, B=255.
RGB LED means red, blue and green LEDs. RGB LED products combine these three colors to produce over 16 million hues of light.
How do I extract a color channel from an image? ›
Step by step process to extract Red Channel of Color Image
- Read image using cv2. imread().
- imread() returns BGR (Blue-Green-Red) array. It is three dimensional array i.e., 2D pixel arrays for three color channels.
- Extract the red channel alone by slicing the array.
lab = rgb2lab( RGB ) converts sRGB values to CIE 1976 L*a*b* values. lab = rgb2lab( RGB , Name,Value ) specifies additional conversion options, such as the color space of the RGB image, using one or more name-value pair arguments.
How to convert image to RGB array? ›
Here are the main steps:
- Import the image using the scipy. ...
- Setup a colour map using matplotlib. ...
- Query the colour map with many numbers along the interval you've defined and store that in a KDTree.
- Query the KDTree using the m × n × 3 ndimage RGB array. ...
- Reduce the data by taking the first spatial derivative using numpy.
Compute and store - image numbers are computed and each laser point stores the number of the image from which it gets the color. Use stored - stored image numbers of laser points are used for color extraction.
Please Note: This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: Discovering the RGB Value of a Custom Text Color.
