That would depend upon where you're accessing the color picker.

If from the Fill Color Icon on the Toolbar you should see the color names.

Also when formatting a Comment or Shape color you will see the names.

If from FormatCellsPatterns you will not see the color names.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 10:41:20 -0800, g.a. chubach
wrote:

My computer does not display color names when I hover my mouse over color
swatches in the Fill Color Chart. How do I turn this on? I am useing Excel
2003.