mouse over colour pop up box

[Guest]

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.

 

[Guest]

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/Tutoria...m#16. Display explanatory text on mouse-over
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[Steve Rindsberg]

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.

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>

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Bill Dilworth]

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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