Duotone 'Color' vs 'Color Libraries'

When attempting to Dutone an image in Grayscale mode I can't locate the PANTONE libraries.  When I click in the square box for the second colour I just get the 'Color' dialogue box.  I can define some custom colours from here, but this is still a bit limiting.  All the tutorials on duotoning state that I should get the 'Color Libraries' box when I click in the second colour square, enabling me to chose a specific PANTONE colour set.  Can anyone please explain where I am going wrong?

Many thanks Zeno and Bart.  Yes, fixed it, what a relief.  How I missed that I don't know.  It's correct on my laptop and I compared the two, duh.... I don't know about more coffee Bart, less in my case I suspect.  Thanks again for you help and spending the time to reply.

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