Macos – How to get the RGB or CMYK slider options in “more colors” for Office for Mac 2011

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I have a problem with Mac Word 2011 and the fact that the 'more colors' option only brings up the color wheel and no RGB or CMYK slider options?
I have tried all weekend to remedy with a number of clean installs of 2011 (after just dragging the old program icons to the trash) and software updates and the result is the same. I need the RGB option for specific color selections.

Could this be a font conflict or is there a hidden check box somewhere? Some observations:

  • My laptop at home displays the RGB and CMYK slider all fine etc… with the same software installed.
  • On the troublesome computer, where in Word the options are missing, the same dialog shows fine in Excel.
  • There is no oval toolbar button in the top right, like older versions of OS X had:

like older versions of OS X had

  • Pressing Command+Shift+T (which for some other applications apparently toggles the toolbar) only raises a beep and does nothing.
  • The view menu is completely greyed out when colors are selected, and there is no show/hide option on my menus if it wasn't.
  • The odd thing is that the cancel box on the first attached picture slightly overlaps the color selected box which makes me think this is an OS issue on installation.

Missing toolbar in Word on the left, but all fine in Excel on the same computer:

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Best Answer

Take a look please: Working with RGB Colors in PowerPoint 2011 for Mac

Here click the Color Sliders button:

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Click on the Gray Scale Slider option:

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This brings up a drop-down menu. Within the drop-down menu select the RGB Sliders option:

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