| Subject | English | French |
| comp., MS | active color | couleur active (The color displayed in the central square of the color box that appears in most workpanes. The active color is used when you create a new object and when you add fills and patterns to a selected object) |
| comp., MS | active color palette | palette de couleurs active (A subset of up to 256 of the colors in the True Color spectrum) |
| comp. | active-matrix color display | écran couleur à matrice active |