Thanks, their solutions are pretty close to mine. I built a string array
indexed by the colorindex number to return a string containing the name. I
filled in the "missing" numbers with a dummy color name called "Invalid".


to get the names i just recorded a macro click on each one of the colors in
the font palette.

good enough for me.

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Neal Z


"Norman Jones" wrote:

Hi Neil,

See:

http://tinyurl.com/lm8ns


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Regards,
Norman


"Neal Zimm" wrote in message
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I have a need to display font color names by feeding the color index number
to "something". When I hold the mouse on a color in the palette the name
displays. Is there a source accessable by VBA or do I have to build a
procedure or function on my own?

Thanks.
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Neal Z