Apparently recent versions of Word include a ‘colour picker’ (an eyedropper icon) to choose a colour based on a colour already in a document.
Word 2010, as far as I can tell, lacks this facility (as do many other programs, or ‘applications’ as we are now to call them). Now, I ought to be able to select some text then click the little arrow beside the tipping bucket on the Home tab, then select More Colours and Custom and see the RGB values of the background colour — but (1) this does not seem to work reliably and (2) what if I want the text colour, or a colour from an embedded image?
Apparently PowerPoint does not lack the colour picker, but that may also vary with version.
When using Windows, one, though not really slick, way to do it is:
- Install ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html) and fire it up.
- Go to the page of the file in question in Word (or any other application!) and press ‘Print Screen’ (or ‘Prt Srcn’ or whatever).
- Go to ImageJ and select File → New → System Clipboard (or hit Ctrl+Shift+v)
- Still in ImageJ, hover over the colour of interest; the RGB values will show up on the ImageJ status bar.
- In Word, say you want a fill, click the little arrow beside the tipping bucket on the Home tab, then select More Colours and Custom and type the RGB values in the boxes. (Or do whatever the application in question demands if using something other than Word.)
- Done.
In pictures, we do our Prt Scrn and then open ImageJ and go to File, New, System Clipboard
Then, we hover the mouse over the colour of interest and read its RGB values off the ImageJ status bar (boxed).
Then, back in Word, we click the arrow beside the bucket, then More Colors (sic) then Custom then type in the RGB values. We could do the same in the font colour dialog too, to colour the text instead of the background, or the highlighter colour selector, or for colours in WordPress posts too. etc. 
How useful this is in more modern versions, I dunno. But it would work for colour matching when working in programs other than Word. I used it above to make the colour of text in this blog match that on the screen shot. That’s why it’s hard to read!
I dunno.
I’m a scientist by training, currently working as a writer, trainer and editor.
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I got a call from DH yesterday saying that all his greens didn’t match in his presentation, and could I help him out?
“Easy, peasy,” said I. 🙂
Here’s how you do it!
In this case I was working in Powerpoint, and needed to get to where you can format the background colour of the items that needed changing. Usually to do this I right-click or Control-click (Mac) on the item (in the example below it was a shape, but it could be a table or text) and select ‘Format Shape…’ (or Format Text / Paragraph / Table).
Look for the “Fill” options on the left hand side of the pop-up box. This refers to Fill Colour. (See (1) in the screenshot below.)
From here you click on the ‘Solid’ pane at the top (2), then click on Color –> More Colors… (3), as illustrated in the screenshot below.
Now you should have the option to select colours.
Click on the left most colour selector icon (indicated in the screenshot below, the one that looks like a multi-coloured ball). Then click on the colour selector crosshair – it looks like a magnifying glass.
You can then position the crosshair over any colour in your presentation. To select a colour, just click anywhere on your presentation that has the colour that you want to copy.
The colour will then be selected in the colour block, and you can click OK, then OK again and your colour should be updated to match.
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