Some of the Excel color picker dialogs have the color name when you hover and
others have not.

If you click on the Fill Color Icon on the Formatting Toolbar you will get the
names.

If you FormatCellsPatterns you won't unless you click on "Pattern" dropdown.

When formatting a Comment for Colors and Lines the color names show up.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 15:54:01 -0700, David Schrader
wrote:

In some MSO applications when changing colors when the mouse of held over one
of the squares of the color menu the system displays the "name" pf the color
- for example "Red" or "Primrose." For some reason I've lost that sbility (in
Excel). Where do I go to restore that ability?