Tip: You can also match colors anywhere on your screen. The mouse pointer becomes a large circle.Īs you move your pointer over other colors in your presentation, the circle shows a preview of the color you're pointing at. Move the Colors dialog box to one side so that it's out of your way: click the title bar of the dialog box and then drag.Ĭlick the eyedropper tool near the bottom of the dialog box. On the Shape Format tab, select Shape Fill (if you're coloring a shape) or Text Fill (if you're coloring text).Ĭlick More Fill Colors to open the Colors dialog box. (To select multiple objects, press Shift and then click the objects.) Select the shape or object you want to assign a different color to. For most slide objects, you can simply double-click it to open the Format pane, where you can find all the color options for that object. The menu option name may vary (for example, you might see More Fill Colors) depending on the type of object you're working with. You can use the eyedropper tool anywhere that you can access the More Colors menu option, such as in shape fills, shape outlines, shadow settings, line options, chart fills, and so on. If you've changed your mind and don't want to apply the color, at the bottom of the Format Background pane, select Reset Background. If you want all slides in your file to have that same background, at the bottom of the Format Background pane, select Apply to All. The color is immediately applied to the slide background. Point at the color you want to apply, and then click.

The Format Background pane opens on the right. Right-click the slide whose background you want to re-color. Match a color and apply it to the slide background

To turn off the Eyedropper tool without picking a color, press Esc. The color is immediately applied to the selected shape or object.įor a more accurate way of getting the exact color you want when many colors are clustered together, select the color by pressing Enter or spacebar instead. When you're pointing at the color you want to match, release mouse button. Hover or pause on a color to see its RGB (Red Green Blue) color coordinates. As you move your pointer around onscreen, a live preview of the color you're pointing at appears. The mouse pointer turns into an eyedropper tool: On the Format or Shape Format tab, select Shape Fill (if you're coloring a shape) or Text Fill (if you're coloring text).

(To select multiple objects, press Ctrl and then click the shapes.) But this can't be the solution.Select the shape or text you want to assign a new color to. To do so I have to go to circle 1 change the fill to gradient (the small buttons underneath the big ones) and then back to fill and mysteriously it will change the color. I have to select the object and select the the color. There is one way I could manage to change the color but this is extremely annoying and inconvenient.

I searched now every post that I could find to this topic but non gave me any solution. This happens to any kind of object I want to change the color by eyedropper. What happens is the following: the color is only changed in the color panel of the tool bar on the right (see image circle 2) and in the color panel of the tool bar on the left (see image circle 1) but not in the real object (see image red arrow, the fill of the stars, circle 3). When I want to change the color of an object (either fill or stroke) with the eyedropper tool I usually hold shift to pick only the color and the object will display the new color. I have a problem with my Illustrator CS6.

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