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tiagorocha Author

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Two different palettes in Numbers app?

I've experienced this more than once where a document will show one bright palette and then another will show a more muted color palette. I don't really understand why that happens and how to switch from one to another?

This is not a custom palette I've created (I don't even know how to do that, if possible at all). For example yesterday I've downloaded a .xlxs file from Google Sheets and when I opened it with Numbers, the palette was that muted one.

If I create a new file, I get the bright one.

Does anyone know why this happens?

Is it possible to switch between them?

Also, is it possible to create and load custom palettes? I'm not talking about the colors we can add at the bottom of the Colors window. I'm talking about the Color Fills / Gradient Fills / Image Fills section.

Thank you.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 21, 2021 12:38 AM

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Badunit

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Posted on Jul 21, 2021 7:35 AM

That is a good question. That palette of colors is part of the document. Excel and Google use different palettes than Numbers. What I don't know is how to transfer a palette from one document to another, or at least how to do it easily. I hope someone has a better answer than the ones I put below, which are workarounds in case there is no answer.

If your document is one sheet or if it is multiple sheets that do not reference each other, you can create a new Numbers document (that has the bright palette) and copy/paste the sheets to it. You won't have the old palette anymore, though.

If you are interested in only a few colors, you can open a new Numbers document (that has the bright palette) and drag colors one at a time from that palette to a table on the other document to create cell fills then drag those cell fills one at a time into the palette in that document. I certainly hope there is an easier way, though.

For the one-at-a-time method, select a cell with a color you want in the palette then

I have not seen what this does for chart colors, though.

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