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If you’re creating a new style (paragraph, character, or object) and you realize you don’t have the color you need in your Swatches panel, just double-click the fill or stroke color proxy to bring up the New Color Swatch dialog box.
This article was last modified on July 25, 2019
This article was first published on August 19, 2014
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