Where is the opacity slider in the color picker?

Where has the opacity slider gone in the color picker?  It used to be underneath the color wheel.
[Edited to correct spelling error.]

Based on some reading of related discussions, and some experimentation on my own system, it looks like the opacity slider only appears in some contexts and programs.  For instance, it doesn't show up when I am choosing a font colour in Word 2011 or TextEdit.  It does show up when I am choosing a font colour in Omnigraffle.
Some other articles seemed to suggest it was related to whether there was a background behind whatever the colour was being set on - perhaps that makes sense as opacity only affects whether you can see through something, and if there's nothing to see behind it perhaps it is sometimes thought to serve no purpose?  Perhaps it only works when the program chooses to support it?  Searching Word help for "opacity" returns no results, for instance.
Hope that helps.
Ivan

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