Not just 'more colors' but the capacity to enter hexidecimal colors. People should not envy MS Paint. 

A fix for this issue is available to Server and Data Center customers in Confluence 7.5.0
Upgrade now or check out the Release Notes to see what other issues are resolved.

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Oh no! Thanks for letting me know christian.sprenger. I've attached the file to the ticket, so you can see it in all its glory.

Picture is broken :'(

Hi everyone

Thank you all for your patience on this one. Confluence 7.5 is about to ship and I wanted to give you a sneak peek of what is coming!

We have expanded the original six options to a range of 49 bright and subtle options. The existing five colours have been tweaked slightly to align with the Atlassian Design Guidelines (ADG) colour palette. Any colours you have used on existing tables/pages won't be affected and you can choose to update these tables with the new colours. 

We've already started planning our next Long Term Support/Enterprise Release (unfortunately, features are not backported) and are looking at further updates to the editor, including ways to make viewing and editing content easier and nicer. I know there are lots of other things on the wishlist and we take all your comments/votes/watches on these bugs and suggestions into consideration (e.g. I see your comments about a colour picker! ).

Hope you enjoy this latest update. Thanks again!

Makisa | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center

Ubelievable! Hooray for colors! 

7.5 so when will it be back ported to 7.4.X   enterprise release???  Or do enterprise release customers have to wait another year?

Waiting for Release

This can not be true!

................... We will miss you: CONFSERVER-27618

PS: When you're at it anyway: please also more colors for comments!

804cc40ede4d and ahirt700596708 thanks for your comments. We sync and collaborate across a number of teams when considering or making changes. However, not all changes can be adopted or made in the same timeframe across products, due to differing priorities. We aim to maintain a familiar experience across our entire product suite; our focus is on improving Confluence Server and Data Center and unfortunately cannot speak to the timeframes/plans of other teams.

@Makisa Appleton - Will you be doing the same thing for Confluence Cloud?

One thing: please make sure the colours are the same as in JIRA.  In previous versions of JIRA/Confluence the colours were different which did not make things look very coordinated (along with many, many, other different interface elements for similar functionality).  Good to see these are now aligned.

Hello Community of CONFSERVER-27618 , as reminder has spotted, we're actively looking at addressing this suggestion. At this stage, we will be expanding the existing colour palette, not necessarily changing the functionality of the colour picker. We're aiming for our new palette to adhere to Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) and to minimise the impact of the change to existing page content.

As always, thanks for your patience and feedback!

Makisa | Senior Product Manager, Confluence Server and Data Center

See issue has progress. Thanks you for picking it up Atlassian.

If possible, please try to keep cell colors when people are copying tables from Microsoft Word or Excel into confluence.

Hellow... just a reminder for 2020 February month

I have been watching this for quite some time and we are very much on board with this need.
We are currently working on improvements to the editing experience and hope to address this request in the near future. You can expect to hear an update on this suggestion from us in the next 6 months.

Cheers,
Adam Barnes | Senior Product Manager - Confluence Server

It's 2020 and still nothing?

I toolbar icon is not all that great - is there perhaps a non WYSIWYG editing mode as a workaround?

Adding another comment to outline this is really a big gap also in 2020... you never know what Jira issue filters are filtering on

Seems this will be ignored forever... While writing this I comment feel like I lost 20 seconds of my life for nothing. It is just sad.

Would there be any use if we all report this issue to Support Portal and ask for a update? Promised 6 months and it's already two years... Almost 700 votes here.

How difficult this could be? Some color codes?

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In comparison to Jira group rename feature request, which really could be hard to implement to database and they have avoided it for years (since 2003).

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-1391

1844 votes there...

Look at attachments, nice cake there (and it's already 1.5 years old).

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Or Rename space key (since 2004, 832 votes):

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-2085

@Joel Delvin put me down for x1 shirt. Also, Size L. Venmo works, I'll include the shipping info in the payment details.

@Joel Devlin   If you get t-shirts made I want one. Size L.

@Joel Devlin @Christian Sprenger 🤣🤣🤣

The funny thing is that this issue seems to be a minor effort. We could all do it ourselves or use a plugin. I'm just afraid, that Atlassian might bring an official fix weeks after my dirty hack, forcing me into a big migration. Seems to be unwarranted.

Now I just spend my time looking at every changelog and asking myself: "How is that more important than this? Don't they have all the tools to do this right?"

In theory the agile method should be customer focussed. I wonder, from our own experience, if you might just end up managing a heap of tickets instead of getting things done. This issue here surely is ridiculous, still we shall learn from it and make it better in our own systems.

@Joel Devlin, what a great idea, let's have the gathering on Facebook and post pictures from the happening on Twitter, that way anybody can participate and learn about the speedy Atlassian - Confluence development team.

Could @Adam Barnes provide another update on this issue?

I'm pretty sure everyone agrees that, when we offer Atlassian to triple the license cost, to implement this function within the next 5 years?

Oh, wait, they did that already and still not implemented. What a pity.

Then we have to offer to double the license cost again, to wait only the next 5 years for implementation

</sarcasm>?

Sorry guys, but I'm getting frustrated.

Atlassian raises the license cost, year by year doubled, and we still having those tickets not fixed.
Shan't we stick together and say "for one year we don't pay the license"?
When they won't receive any money, maybe something will happen?

OK, Marketing wise I see the point. Everyone pays the fee, you can not change to a different platform, and why solving feature request tickets when they can sell licenses for Plugins?
They receive more money without doing anything. Good point.

@Chris McCleary yes it is absolutely now a meme.

I stop by every few months to see how the community has grown. I'm thinking we might have to start running CellCon as a yearly event so all our members across the globe can catch up and discuss the lack of progress on this issue for the year at hand

Well I have found it limiting but workable until recently where we have someone on our team that is colour blind and can't tell the difference between yellow and green. Having different shades of the same colour would make it more suitable for those that are colour blind.

I'm reading through all the comments now... Has this become a meme? Funny stuff.
I'll be back for the 7-year anniversary party! 🥂🎉

This request was originally logged in December 2012. As I write this, we are about 1 month shy of our 7-year anniversary.

BUMP – not as angry as everyone else, just would like the customizability. Currently, I'd editing my tables in docx or html and then copy-pasting them over to Confluence

@Atlassian. I work for Airbnb and my team we would really benefit from this. Having more colour for tables would make our daily work a lot simpler rather than going through html.  When will we finally hear back on this? Thank you in advance for your help!

@Atlassian: Could you please do an update here?

This is one of the most annoying bug in confluence and clearly limits the usability strongly.

Please fix this immediately (this means this week)!!!

@Atlassian: Any update here?
I had to create some tables today and my customer does not understand why there are only 5 colors.
I could answer that question....

Don't be too upset.

This is why Atlassian raises the maintenance fee, to support us better

I find the Attlassian statement most embarassing:

This statement is nearly 2 years old instead of 6 months.

Dec. 21. 2012, almost 7 years ago, there are 656 named persons who voted for this feature and 263 who are watching this ticket and close to 140 comments.

THIS IS EMBARASSING !!!

I guess they need to change their ticketing system, maybe in Jira they loose all of these feature requests

No excuses just drop a full editor come on!!!!

The number of colors and really even the choice of coloring is pretty awful.

7 years old... We want this feature. 

The light colors are not very good for accessibility, way too faint

Atlassian, please add more colors.

Small things like this one impact adoption more than you may expect. People compare such a platform mostly with what they can do in Microsoft Word documents.... (no need to debate whether that comparison is valid or not).

This seems ridiculous - now well over a year since any update from Atlassian. This is similar to a number of issues that I have voted on and follow both for Confluence and JIRA. CONFSERVER-7118 which would allow cut and paste an excel table while retaining cell and text colors has been open since 2006 - not nearly as many votes but nonetheless something many other editors handle flawlessly. 

Please Atlassian -Improve your editor!

Hahaha! Incredible! In which version did they add two more colors?

Maybe going from 5 colors to 7 was Atlassiasn's way of placating us!

Hi All,

  See my last comment 2+ years(09th Mar 2017). 

This is 2019, back when I started working with computers we had more than 5 colors and that was back in 1984.

The ticket is dated 2012 and I have seen older tickets with the same issue.

Should we start considering other tools, there are other systems that can do what Atlassian/Confluence can just a whole lot better and also import from atlassian.

EMBARRASSING !!!!!!

There's actually a hack on how to do it

http://gustelev.ru/adding-new-colors-to-the-palette-for-a-table-cell-highlighting-in-confluence/

Welcome to the Community, Ville. I've myself been fortunate to be a part of this community for many years now. Among many of the good advises for a happy life, it's one about being part of something that is greater than yourself. And to some extent, even perhaps distant, let's hope this "cell highlight colors" issue can bring humanity closer together. Wish you all the best going forward

Today I joined the merry community of CONSERVER-27618.