Using colors with display formats

Applies to

Display formats

Description

You can define a color for each display format section by specifying a color keyword before the format. The color keyword is the name of the color, or a number that is the color's RGB value, enclosed in square brackets. For example:

[RED]m/d/yy
[255]m/d/yy

The following table lists the named color keywords.

[BLACK]

[MAGENTA]

[BLUE]

[RED]

[CYAN]

[WHITE]

[GREEN]

[YELLOW]


The formula for combining primary color values into a number is:

256 * 256 * blue  + 256 * green + red  = number

where the amount of each primary color is specified as a value from 0 to 255. For example, to specify cyan, substitute 255 for blue, 255 for green, and 0 for red. The result is 16776960.

The following table lists the blue, green, and red values you can use in the formula to specify other colors.

Blue

Green

Red

Number

Color

0

0

255

255

Red

0

255

0

65280

Green

0

128

255

32768

Dark Green

255

0

0

16711680

Blue

0

255

255

65535

Yellow

0

128

128

328896

Brown

255

255

0

16776960

Cyan

192

192

192

12632256

Light Gray