How do you determine the Background Color of a cell?

Wyn & Maurad-

Thanks for the responses and particularly the effort you (Wyn) have put in to  help me understand this Fill stuff.

I thought I followed you, but I still am missing something.  When I select a colored cell -- my situation is a gray colored cell -- and then click on the Fill icon and then More Colors, I see a Pink color shown as the "Current" color -- not the Gray color of the selected cell.

The New and Current display at More Colors is a really nice feature as is the Recent Color list/display in the Fill dropdown -- but I still don't see a box around the color of the cell I have just selected.

WHOOPS -- JUST DISCOVERED SOMETHING.

In playing around with your suggestions, I find if I reach the Fill stuff by right-clicking on the selecteded cell, selecting Format Cells and then click on the Fill Tab, I seem to get what I am after -- whereas if I click on the Fill dropdown, I get a somewhat different dialog presented.

OK, I now think I have enough to figure out what is going on.  Somewhere between the Format Painter, the Fill dropdown (with the Recent Colors list) and the Sample Color displayed when I do a right-click->Format Cells->Fill Tab -- I can get what I want, even though I may not "totally" understand the idosynchroncies between these various approaches.

Thanks for the help -- and it was a help.

ron in round rock