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In word 2010 (or any version really) how do you get text's current color? I just end up having to approximate the color in the palette picker. There must be a better way.

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One normally goes to Font Color / More Colors / Custom to see the RGB or HSL values of the color.

Anything more involved than that requires using VBA macros.
See for example this article: Colours in Word 2007.

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Yes, this is working. Simply select the text of which you want to know the color values, and do the steps mentioned. Then the current values are shon in the color picker. – schöppi Oct 25 '10 at 20:06
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