
When customizing your No AutoColor colors, note that just one or two colors may be sufficient. When you later perform an AutoColor operation, cells with red fonts will not be modified.

To avoid unintended AutoColoring, add red to the list of No AutoColor colors in the Settings dialog. For example, if you colored a numeric input red as a reminder to update it later, you would not want AutoColor to change the number's font color to blue. In some cases, you may not want an AutoColor operation (discussed below) to override existing font colors that have special meaning. Normally, these colors will be similar or identical to your AutoColor colors. Recolor colors are font colors that Macabacus will recolor to the default font color when exporting cells to PowerPoint/Word and generating PDFs. Black is the default font color, which can be customized.

The default font color is used for optionally recoloring fonts when exporting cells to PowerPoint/Word and generating PDFs. The blue color used by the Blue-Black Toggle is the inputs AutoColor, which can be customized.

Blue and black are the font colors used most often in financial modeling, where blue is used to denote inputs and black is used for formulas that reference only cells within the same worksheet. Font Colors Blue-Black ToggleĪlternate the font color of selected cells between blue and your default font color (typically black) using the Blue-Black Toggle. While color cycles are intended for use with shortcut keystrokes, you can also access the colors in your color cycles under the Macabacus > Format > Color menu. When cycling through colors in a cycle using a keyboard shortcut, and the last color in the cycle is reached, repeating the keystroke applies the first color in the cycle. If you want to use a color in your cycle that is not available in your palette, you must first modify your palette to include that color. When customizing these colors, you can choose from any color in your Macabacus color palette.

Colors used by these tools can be customized in the Excel > Format > Colors section of the Settings dialog. Macabacus includes several cycles and other tools for coloring cells and chart elements.
