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You may wish to specify a set of colors for your answer list so that whenever you report on that answer list, these colors will be used instead of the palette specified by the selected style.
For example, the figure here shows a scale where "standard colors" are used to specify the range of colors to be used for the various answer options:
Figure 1 - Specifying colors for reporting
Colors can also be applied to predefined lists and scales, but only if specific codes are assigned in the questionnaire. This is because the predefined list and scale options may be used in different positions in the answer lists in different questions. In this case, if codes are not specifically defined, the list and scale options will have different codes in the different questions, so it will not be possible to use the codes as the identifiers for color allocation.