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color wheel / palette in Apple Numbers

When changing the color of text in a Numbers Spreadsheet, when I click on "Text Color" in the Format/text tab, for years I have always seen this selection of colors appear in a color palette:


After some software version update recently, the colors have changed to this dreadful selection of dull colors:


About half my spreadsheets have the first set of color selections and the other half have the 2nd set of color selections. Why is this? And how can I get the first set of color selections (above) to appear on all of my spreadsheets?


NOTE: I understand that I can click on the color wheel which will pop up a separate window that I then need to look for somewhere on my displays and select a color from that window, etc., ... but I don't want to go through 2 or three extra clicks every time I want to select a text color. I want to keep the original selection of colors, as show in the first color selection above.


ALSO: Can someone please delete old questions and answers, from years gone by, such as the one this link points to (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1404240) since they just clutter up search results with irrelevant, out-dated information.





MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 12, 2021 8:49 AM

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Posted on Oct 12, 2021 9:04 AM

I get the same sort of thing if I use Numbers 11.2 to open an Excel .xlsx spreadsheet which already has a colour palette set.



(Even duller than yours.) 'Native' Numbers spreadsheets still have the bright and shiny colours that you'd expect as the default text colours.


I don't know if that's new with 'some software update', or if it's always been that way. And I'm not sure what you can do about it except copy and paste the raw data into a new Numbers spreadsheet.


As for deleting old questions, I wouldn't hold your breath... 😉

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Oct 12, 2021 9:04 AM in response to davefromtemple

I get the same sort of thing if I use Numbers 11.2 to open an Excel .xlsx spreadsheet which already has a colour palette set.



(Even duller than yours.) 'Native' Numbers spreadsheets still have the bright and shiny colours that you'd expect as the default text colours.


I don't know if that's new with 'some software update', or if it's always been that way. And I'm not sure what you can do about it except copy and paste the raw data into a new Numbers spreadsheet.


As for deleting old questions, I wouldn't hold your breath... 😉

color wheel / palette in Apple Numbers

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