Nope. If you change a colour to other than those 8, in the palette it shows
Color Scheme as the colour name.

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HTH

Bob Phillips

"Geoff" wrote in message
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Hi

I have read David McRitchie's excellent page on colors and fully
appreciate
that Excel only recognises the names of 8.
However there must somewhere, somehow, be a method of accessing the read
only 'descriptive names' of the palette as shown when using ToolTip.

Anyone know how?

T.I.A.

Geoff