Just as a note, you speak of Access 2003 Back Color 12615680 @8:07. There is a relationship to this number and the numbers used in the later versions of Access. The above decimal number is equivalent to hexidecimal #C08000. You need to reverse the bytes to #0080CO or 00 80 C0. These bytes are then translated to decimal 0, 128, 192 respectively. If you put these three numbers into the RGB function as in RGB(0, 128, 192), you will end up with the same resulting colour.

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Reply from Alex Hedley:

Thanks for this Chris, very interesting, I always wondered but never looked into it.