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Colors

You can change the background colors, table colors, and some text colors in FootPrints from this page.   The Color Editor lets you select the colors for eight different areas in FootPrints, including:

Note

To get maximum value from the Color Editor, make sure your browser can display all of the colors at your disposal.  To change your color palette, go to Start | Settings | Control Panel, choose Display and go to Settings to make sure your monitor can display more than 256 colors (Windows only).

To change colors:

  1. Select one of the ten choices listed above.
  2. Either:
  3. Select a color in the Color Palette or
  4. Type the hex value of a color (in hex code format, i.e., 000000-FFFFFF) in the Hex color value field, then click Apply.

A box is displayed below the Color Palette showing the old and new colors.

  1. You can adjust the color choice at any time before you click the Finalize Change button to implement the color change.  You can continue to change other colors on this page
  2. When you are satisfied with all of your changes, click Finish to apply them.
  3. To restore all colors to their default values, click the Restore button.

To insure proper functionality, you may have to clear out your browser’s cache, refresh the screen, and/or close and re-open the browser to see all of the new colors correctly.