Re: mouse over colour pop up box



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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"Steve Rindsberg" <abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:VA.00001d66.5993818a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <A61DCFC1-1815-4526-9978-15C1A052581C@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Bri2709
> wrote:
>> 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>
>
>
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