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Old April 28th, 2010, 05:54 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Vicki B[_2_]
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Default CMYK/Pantone custom colors in 2007

I have some lettering and shading in a document that I want to match to my
logo. I know I have had the CMYK and Panetone options in the custom color
bar drop down previously, but now all I get is RGB and HSL options. Am I
missing something? Thank you.
Vicki
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Old April 28th, 2010, 08:17 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Jay Freedman
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Default CMYK/Pantone custom colors in 2007

Sorry to contradict you, but no Office program has ever had built-in CMYK or
Pantone options. They're all RGB-based. Maybe you had a third-party add-in
that provided a translation.

You can find lots of web pages
(http://www.google.com/search?q=cmyk+to+rgb+conversion) that show charts or
formulas for *approximating* CMYK colors with RGB. The CMYK color space is
larger than the RGB color space, meaning that there are CMYK colors that
can't be exactly matched by any RGB color. Read the Conversion section of
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMYK_color_model for more information.

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Vicki B wrote:
I have some lettering and shading in a document that I want to match
to my logo. I know I have had the CMYK and Panetone options in the
custom color bar drop down previously, but now all I get is RGB and
HSL options. Am I missing something? Thank you.
Vicki



 




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