From the Edit menu A list of available commands and actions in Publisher. Menu names are displayed in the menu bar at the top of the Publisher window., select Edit Colours. The Colours dialog box A window used to supply information to Publisher. appears.
Click on Add to display the Add Colour dialog box.
You can mix colours using RGB A colour model for additive mixing, in which Red, Green and Blue are mixed to produce any colour., CMYK A colour model of subtractive mixing with cyan, magenta, yellow and black used to make any other colour. These are the colours of the four inks used in process colour printing., or HLS A colour model using Hue, Lightness and Saturation to specify a colour. colour models. Use the sliders A box that you can drag to adjust the effect of the control e.g. the tint slider on a colour palette. to create the colour you want. A preview of the colour is shown on the right-hand side of the dialog box.
Check the Spot Colour check box A small square box on a dialog box that can be selected or cleared. A check box represents an option that you can turn on or off. if you want to define the colour as a spot colour A colour specified as a spot colour can have its own separation when it is printed instead of being made up of a mixture of process colours..
When you have created the colour you want and given it a name, click on OK. You are returned to the Colours dialog box.
Click on OK. The colour is added to the colour bar.
Note:
If you have created a lot of custom colours to use in your documents, you can save them as a colour palette A set of colours available to your Publisher documents. You can create more colours to add to the colour palette, or you can delete colours if you do not want to use them. When you save a document, the colour palette is saved as part of the document, with any changes that you have made. Each document can be saved with a different selection of colours in the palette. that you can use in the future.
You cannot edit tints. The Add Colour dialog box only shows colours at 100% tint The amount of whiteness applied to a colour, where 0% is white and 100% is the full colour..
Shortcut:
Click on the + button at the right-hand end of the colour bar to display the Add Colour dialog box.
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