# How do I see materials in their names

**URL:** <https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106>\
**Category:** SketchUp\
**Created:** [October 18, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106 "2014-10-18T08:20:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![duriantea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@duriantea](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/duriantea)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106/1 "2014-10-18T08:20:01Z")

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Hi.

I used to be able to see my materials in their names, instead of thumbnails, when I was using the Windows version.

However after I switched to the mac version of Sketchup. I really couldn’t figure out how to do that anymore.

Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks a million in advance.

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**Author:** ![TIG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/tig/32/198_2.png) [@TIG](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/TIG)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 11:03am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106/2 "2014-10-18T11:03:51Z")

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I wrote a simple plugin RB file several years ago to give MAC users a sorted material-name-list to choose from…  
Now available as an RBZ - from the SketchUcation PluginStore v1.1

> **[SketchUp Plugins | PluginStore | SketchUcation](https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=TIGmatlist)**
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> SketchUp Plugin and Extension Store by SketchUcation provides free downloads of hundreds of SketchUp extensions and plugins

[http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=351777#p351777](http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=351777#p351777)

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**Author:** ![quantj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/sketchup/user_avatar/forums.sketchup.com/quantj/32/3693_2.png) [@quantj](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/quantj)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2014, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106/3 "2014-10-18T14:27:11Z")

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Mac setup is different, it just simply doesn’t allow for a list of all the material names like PC ☹  
Either you can use plug-ins  
or  
RIght click the material you want, right click, edit and then you can edit/see the name. However this just so you can see the name, one at a time, not great if you want to see them all.

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**Author:** ![duriantea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3e96dc/32.png) [@duriantea](https://forums.sketchup.com/u/duriantea)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:11am UTC](https://forums.sketchup.com/t/how-do-i-see-materials-in-their-names/2106/4 "2014-10-23T08:11:09Z")

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Thanks for the replies!