The "right" blue in excel

May be I need to take a chill pill but are you guys also under the impression that the right "blue" to use for inputs on the models should be the 2nd down, 3rd on over from the right on the "More Colors" hexagon?

Call me a old-timer but why the fuck doesn't excel have that blue as a main color.

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Right green is 0-128-0

Right blue is 0-0-255

right highlight is 255-255-153

 

Are we talking about filling cells or just for the font? Because then, am I the only one who thinks 0/0/255 looks too antiquate for filling cells? I prefer something less rough on the eyes like 0/102/255

 

Wait don’t we just use the fact set plug in and Ctrl + “ to cycle through all the colours you need (red, black, blue, green, white) and save time in typing out the RGB codes?

 

I highly recommend the TTS Turbo Macro. It is a simple macro that has good cycles (Font Color, Fill Color, Border, Number Format, Alignment). This keeps me on the right colors with the click of CTRL+SHIFT+C. 

 

Have macros that do the blue, green, and red automatically.  The amount of time it saves you is awesome, until you think about the amount of time automatically coloring text in Excel saves you, then it gets horribly depressing.

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