PPT Productivity's Color Palette Toolbar lets you create a custom color palette in PowerPoint, so that all colors you prefer to use are easy to access.

PowerPoint color schemes for your presentation are often determined by the marketing team. But it's not always easy to find the correct color when working in a presentation. The standard PowerPoint theme color supports only 12 colors - 6 color accents, 4 text color variants and 2 hyperlink variants for your template.

But if you have an extended color palette for your brand, PPT Productivity makes it easy to add these colors to your Color Toolbar. You can share your Color Palette Toolbar setup with your team.

Large teams can also request to customize color names displayed, to match enterprise brand guidelines. By default the Color Palette Toolbar also includes the 10 standard PowerPoint colors (dark red, red, orange, yellow, light green, dark green, light blue, blue, dark blue and purple), but you can choose to show or hide these via the Settings gear at the bottom of the Toolbar.

July 2023 update - the Color Toolbar was updated in July 2023 to also support displaying color tints for your PowerPoint Template colors. You can customize the Color Toolbar to display or hide 3 lighter tints and 2 darker tints for each of your 6 standard PowerPoint Accent colors in the PowerPoint template used for your presentation, and for the 2 background text colors.

The settings button at the bottom of the Color Toolbar gives you access to the configuration options.

PPT Productivity's Color Palette Toolbar for PowerPoint has a setting option that lets you update both the fill and border / outline of a shape in PowerPoint in a single click.

By default in PowerPoint, changing a fill color only changes the internal color of a shape - you need to change the outline color separately. PPT Productivity enables you to override this. Simply click the gear icon at the bottom of the PPT Productivity Color Toolbar and select the option Set Line with Fill.

If you apply this setting, each time you click the Fill icons on the Color toolbar, both fill and border colors of your selected shape(s) will be set to the selected fill color. Helpful shortcut if your preference is matching shape fill and border colors.

It's easier than ever to change the color of PowerPoint Charts with the PPT Productivity Color Palette Toolbar.

PPT Productivity's Color Toolbar for PowerPoint makes it easy to update the colors of PowerPoint charts. This feature saves a lot of tiem, particularly if you you're looking to use custom colors that are not in your template theme list. Simply click on the chart element(s) to update and then select your preferred color from the Color Toolbar.

View PowerPoint RGB color values, HEX value and color names easily on the PPT Productivity Color Palette Toolbar.

This feature was created to support accessibility. Working with close color variants in a PowerPoint presentation can make it challenging to distinguish between the different shades, particularly if you have color vision deficiency.

When you mouseover any color on the PPT Productivity Color toolbar, a tooltip displays the color name, RGB values and HTML HEX Color code.

For colors in your presentations' theme, the RGB mouseover tip will also indicate which theme color setting the color has been set to (for example Theme Accent 3). This makes it easy to update your theme to adjust for which color is used in each accent.

If you have chosen to display tints/ shades for your template theme colors, the shade % will also display eg Lighter 80%

Access Powerpoint Color Theme accent and background colors including tints and shades from PPT Productivity's Color Palette Toolbar.

The Color Toolbar for PowerPoint provides easy access to PowerPoint Color Theme accent colors and background colors from your template, including dark and light tints and shades.

PowerPoint automatically generates tints and shades for your template theme colors - including the accent, background and text colors. You can find these tints and shades when you click on the Shape Fill, Shape Outline or Font color buttons on the Home tab. PPT Productivity makes the tints and shades of your template colors available from the Color Toolbar.

You can set the PowerPoint Color Toolbar to automatically update and show the theme colors for your presentation, or for your slide (e.g. for presentations with multiple themes). Choose to show or hide the 3 light and 2 dark shades of each color.

Once you have customized your PowerPoint Color Palette Toolbar, you can export your settings to share with colleagues including all of your custom colors.

PPT Productivity add-in for PowerPoint lets you export your settings to share with team members. Your team can easily import the color palette settings, so all team members have access to the same colors for their presentations.

This provides all team members with access to a consistent palette in PowerPoint. Note that you can share your PPT Productivity settings without needing support from your IT team, because team members can simply import a file that you export.

Alternatively - for large organizations, PPT Productivity's team can work with your IT team to deploy a standard palette centrally for your organization along with other addin configurations. Contact us to discuss.

Learn more about PPT Productivity's custom settings and how to share with your team.