PPT Productivity's Color Palette Toolbar makes updating colors in PowerPoint presentations easy.

The Color Toolbar for PowerPoint dynamically updates to include your presentation color palette (the theme colors from the template of your open presentation). You can also make a custom color palette with the Toolbar - add your favorite PowerPoint color schemes, or temporarily add colors you need for a specific slide.

The Color Toolbar saves you time when creating or editing PowerPoint presentations by putting a color palette for slides at your fingertips. Color names and RGB values are displayed when you mouseover a color.

There are four sections or groups on the Color Palette Toolbar:

• Group 1: Black, white and clear/ no color
• Group 2: Dynamic - Displays the color scheme from the theme or template of your open PowerPoint presentation
• Group 3: The ten standard PowerPoint colors
• Group 4: Displays any colors you choose to add to the toolbar

The Color Palette Toolbar includes shortcut buttons to quickly change the color of text, shape fill and shape outlines or borders. The Color Toolbar can also be used to update tables (the border color updates the borders of all cells).

To apply a color using the toolbar, simply select the font or shape you need to change on your slide and select the relevant color from the toolbar.

You can customize the Color Toolbar for PowerPoint to add colors, to reorder the display of colors, and delete unwanted colors. Color names and RGB values are displayed when you mouseover each color, which makes it easy to distinguish between shades of specific colors.

Updating the color palette on the Toolbar is easy. To add custom colors simply click the + icon and either use the eyedropper, select the color or enter the RGB values. Right click a color on the toolbar to access a delete option. From the Settings gear at the bottom of the Color Toolbar you can access further customizations including to hide the standard PowerPoint colors.

Saving colors to your color toolbar for PowerPoint makes updating presentations fast. Add colors to the toolbar to have them in easy reach - even if you're only using a color for one presentation, you can delete it once you're finished.

Working with a team? Customize the setup of the Color Palette Toolbar and share it (along with other settings) with your colleagues, so your team have the same setup. Read more about sharing PPT Productivity settings across a team.

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.

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

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 PowerPoint color name, RGB values and HTML HEX Color code.

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

If you have chosen to display tints/ shades for your PowerPoint 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.