Those names sounded familiar. So I looked in Word 97 and Word 2003, which did not use Theme colors but only standard colors.
They have gradations of gray.
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There are standard shade of gray colors built into Word like wdColorGray50. This can be used in vba using something along the lines of:
Code:
Sub ColorGray50()
Selection.range.Font.ColorIndex = wdGray50
End Sub
While there are standard colors for some shades of gray, there are not for actual hues.
My guess is that someone created a character style for that shade. Something similar could be done with the Theme colors. Note, though, if someone changes the Theme, the color will change.
You can do something similar to standard colors using the full RGB more colors.
Working with Theme colors, as Italophile mentioned, it is in terms of lighter and darker for the base Theme color. You can approximate what you want, but again, as a Theme color, if the Theme is changed, your color likely will also change.
I expect that it is possible to render the Theme color as RGB, but do not know how I would do this.
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