Background color options for spreadsheet

[DavidDugas]

I am an enthusiastic supporter of Open Office and I believe I can make a useful recommendation for improvement. I have prepared many reports including printed spreadsheets and find the Open Office color options both aesthetically 'challenged' and impractical. In a couple of hours I prepared an alternative set of color options using
Corel QuattroPro which occupies the same 100 square matrix now used in the Open Office drop down. Though I converted the new color matrix to a pdf file, I see no way to attach it to this mail. I will be happy to send a copy to any who are interested.

dwd

PS I am not a pdf virus.
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US Expat
Daejeon, South Korea

[David]

Better, perhaps, to send it to a file hosting service so that people can download from there if they wish. [I'm stuck on what it is you are doing, to be truthful, and how a colour scheme from QP can be transferred to Calc, and similarities and differences, but will wait and see.] Sorry, I'm a bit reluctant to send email addresses, that usually being reserved for people I know, and am even quite cautious about downloading files except from people I've seen around here for some time. It's the age we live in.

David.

[jrkrideau]

[acknak]

Good idea, but a Quattro Pro document will not be directly useful since it's not in a format that OOo can use. OOo comes with about a half-dozen different color palettes; many more have been developed and are scattered around the web.

The palette files are simple text/xml files (the names end with ".soc"); you can take one of the existing ones and modify it in a text editor, or use the OOo color editor and then export the palette to a .soc file.

Here's a sample from the standard.soc file:

[DavidDugas]

Thanks for the quick response. The use of QuattroPro was simply to produce an array of color choices to demonstrate what I feel is a much better approach. I converted it to pdf just so that it could be posted for general viewing. I'll see about setting up a simple webpage so that such sharing will be possible. Thanks for the ideas. I'm not a programmer, but I may be able to create a text list of the specific color definitions, which someone else might integrate into the existing subroutine for background color selection. I'll use the format provided in the second response. I'll need a little time. More later.

Dugas
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US Expat
Daejeon, South Korea

[acknak]