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bri2709 - 04 Nov 2005 21:22 GMT

I am trying to turn on the function which allows a pop up box to appear with
the name of a colour when you hover the mouse over it. I am colour blind and
I am working on charts in powerpoint, created in excel, where I would like to
use the corporate colours of the organisations which are being commented on.

Any help appreciated.

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tohlz - 04 Nov 2005 21:39 GMT

You can check this out for more information. You can add invisible
autoshapes(Draw a rectangle, then click format autoshape, set to no fill and
no line) for placing on top of the excel chart:
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/quicktricks.htm#16.%20%20Displa
y%20explanatory%20text%20on%20mouse-over

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> I am trying to turn on the function which allows a pop up box to appear with
> the name of a colour when you hover the mouse over it. I am colour blind and
> I am working on charts in powerpoint, created in excel, where I would like to
> use the corporate colours of the organisations which are being commented on.
>
> Any help appreciated.

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Steve Rindsberg - 04 Nov 2005 22:07 GMT

Other than in PowerPoint, where you see a tooltip that displays the names of the
various scheme colors in the color picker, I don't know of any such feature.

Have you seen it do this in some other program perhaps?

If nothing else, there's a very handy little utility program called Pixie that
shows you the color of any point on screen you hover the mouse over.

http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

Price is just right too. <g>

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bri2709 - 04 Nov 2005 23:01 GMT

Fantastic Steve
Tooltip was what I needed to look for
Thank you
Brian

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Bill Dilworth - 04 Nov 2005 23:01 GMT

I think the problem will be in assigning color names. There are many apps
that show the pixel RGB values, but to assign a name (like "light
blue-green") to that requires a bit more judgment than most apps can muster.

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