Any way to remove a custom color?

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Colin Higbie

I am creating a master PowerPoint template. In editing it, I created a few
custom colors that I don't want anyone using, including me (they are very
similar to the final custom colors I used, and difficult to distinguish,
safest thing is to delete them). Is there any way to remove custom colors from
the palette? I can only figure out how to add additional custom colors.

I could not find anything in the help or elsewhere on the forum about this.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Colin
 
Colin,

The only thing that springs to mind is.....

Keep adding colors....such as several shades of white/black.

Some kind of vba add-in that clears the colors.

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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This can be achieved manually without code:
1. Open the presentation.
2. Select Tools | Macros | Microsoft Script Editor (MSE) Shortcut:
Alt+Shift+F11
3. Locate the 'Project Explorer' window and double-click on 'pres.xml' item
to open up the code window for that document.
3. Press Ctrl+F to bring up the Find dialog.
4. In the Find what field type "o:colormru" (without quotes).
5. Click on Find Next button.
6. The line on which it will locate the word will look something like this
below: (note that the colors in the list will depend on the custom color
palette in use)
<o:colormru v:ext="edit" colors="silver,#ff5050,#6f9"/>

7. Change this line to:
<o:colormru v:ext="edit" colors=""/>

or delete the entire line.

8. Close the MSE window.
9. It will prompt you to save 'pres.xml'. Select 'Yes'.

Now the custom color will no longer appear in the palette

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Regards
Shyam Pillai

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