HSE Colour Theme for Documents

Here’s a guide for changing the colour theme in your MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint. The colour codes are listed in the table below, and further down you’ll find instructions and videos for each of the three programs.

Theme templateColourHEX-code
Accent 1Turquoise#439CB8
Accent 2Dark green#006633
Accent 3Red#91262D
Accent 4Yellow#CFBF28
Accent 5Mid-green#279A61
Accent 6Dark blue#004873

For the other themes (headlines, links, etc.) no change of colour is needed.

Choose a name for your new theme so that you can find it easily. Once you’ve changed in one of the three programs, it should appear automatically in the other ones.

Excel

You’ll find it under Page layout > Colours > Customise colours

Word

You’ll find it under Design > Colours > Customise colours

PowerPoint

You’ll find it under Design > Variants – More > Colours > Customise colours