Use the Color Picker to select the color that you want to apply to the Background or Foreground. You can click any one of the three tabs to select a color.
Custom Colors
There are 48 preset basic colors that cannot be modified.
To select one of these basic colors, perform the following:
Click the square of the basic color that you want.
Click OK to close the dialog box.
You can fill 16 custom color squares with colors of your choice. You can fill an empty square or replace the color in a square with a new color.
To create a custom color, perform the following:
To create a custom color, right-click one of the available custom color squares. The Define Color dialog box appears.
This dialog box modifies the red, green, blue, hue, saturation and luminance values of the current color.
To adjust these values, click inside the color spectrum box or drag the crosshair pointer to the desired position.
The thin color ribbon box modifies the red, green, blue, and luminance values of the current color.
To adjust these values, click inside the color ribbon box or drag the pointer on the right of the box up or down. The Color/Solid display box changes as you move the pointer.
The controls affect the contents of the Color/Solid display box, which displays the currently selected color.
Click Add Color to add the custom color to the previously selected custom color square.
Click OK to close the Color Picker dialog box.
To change a custom color, right-click or double-click the custom color square in the lower section of the dialog box and repeat steps 1 through 4 for creating a custom color.
Web Colors
The Web tab displays the standard 216 safe colors. These safe colors are composed of combinations of the values 00, 33, 66, 99, CC, and FF for red, green, and blue, and they should be correctly displayed by any browser.
To select one of these colors, perform the following:
Click the box of the color you want.
Click OK to close the dialog box
System Colors
The System tab displays the system colors that are set in the Windows Display Control Panel.
To select one of these colors, perform the following:
Click the box of the color you want.
Click OK to close the dialog box