Monday, March 11, 2013


Excel Color Palette


Pasted below the viz is the xml to add to your tableau preferences file to get the "excel color palette". Why you ask? No particular reason. I have also garishly formatted this viz to make the excel users more comfortable. Enjoy!

Here is the xml:

<color-palette name="excel" type="regular">

<color>#000000</color>
<color>#FFFFFF</color>
<color>#FF0000</color>
<color>#00FF00</color>
<color>#0000FF</color>
<color>#FFFF00</color>
<color>#FF00FF</color>
<color>#00FFFF</color>
<color>#800000</color>
<color>#008000</color>
<color>#000080</color>
<color>#808000</color>
<color>#800080</color>
<color>#008080</color>
<color>#C0C0C0</color>
<color>#808080</color>
<color>#9999FF</color>
<color>#993366</color>
<color>#FFFFCC</color>
<color>#CCFFFF</color>

</color-palette>

3 comments:

  1. UnknownApril 7, 2013 at 1:42 AM

    Hi,
    can you explain more how you did that? to where you add the xml file?

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  2. northwestcoderApril 12, 2013 at 1:29 PM

    tech note here:

    http://kb.tableausoftware.com/articles/knowledgebase/creating-custom-color-palettes

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  3. UnknownJanuary 9, 2014 at 9:30 PM

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