InDesign How-To: Set Default Color Swatches

In this InDesign how-to video, Erica Gamet demos how to set default color swatches for all new InDesign documents. Whether you create them from scratch or pull colors from an existing document, she shows how have the same swatches available right from the start.

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Erica Gamet

Erica Gamet has been involved in the graphics industry for over 35 years. She is a speaker, writer, trainer, and content creator focusing on Adobe InDesign, Apple Keynote, and varied production topics. She is a regular presenter at CreativePro Week, regular contributor to CreativePro Magazine, and has spoken at Canada’s ebookcraft, Adobe MAX, and Making Design in Oslo, Norway. Find Erica online at the CreativePro YouTube channel, CreativeLive.com and through her own YouTube channel. When she isn’t at her computer she’s probably daydreaming about travel or living in a Nordic noir landscape.

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Janelle Ferraro says:

June 23, 2021 at 12:57 pm

Thanks for this! I was always able to close a document and have my workspace stay open, for some reason by 2021 InDesign closes that all out immediately so I can’t save my defaults like I used to, I wonder if this is a glitch. (Indesign hasn’t been working up to par since I updated to 2021).