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    • September 21, 2016 at 10:33 am #88555
      Dian Swarm
      Member

      When I click and delete my unused colors there are still a handful of color swatches that do not delete. These are not colors being used by logos, links or ANY elements in my document. When I change to spot and look for what is being used NOTHING shows up.

      Any idea how to get the system to delete these? I can change them to un named swatches, but I want to do this all at once.

      Thanks!

    • September 21, 2016 at 10:37 am #88556
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Some colors — such as Paper, Registration, and Black — cannot be deleted. For others, try: https://creativepro.com/color-swatches-that-wont-delete.php

    • September 21, 2016 at 10:55 am #88557
      Dian Swarm
      Member

      Not those colors… sorry I wasn’t more specific.
      The option to delete isn’t ghosted. I am able to delete these colors, just not with “select all unused”.
      The problem is that the system wants to replace with another color. It makes me nervous thinking it really is being used when it is not.
      The swatch color isn’t being used anywhere at all!

    • September 21, 2016 at 11:01 am #88558
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      If you see a dialog box saying that it wants to replace with another color, then it IS being used.
      But sometimes it is not used in an obvious place.
      For example, cyan is the color used in Paragraph Shading, and even though you may not have paragraph shading enabled in any paragraph styles, it is technically “burned in” to the Basic Paragraph Style.
      So if a paragraph or character or object or table or cell style uses a color (even if it is not applied anywhere), then InDesign gives you that dialog box.

    • September 21, 2016 at 11:40 am #88559
      Dian Swarm
      Member

      These are docs that have absolutely no styles, shading, etc…

      Just some random leftover cmyk mixes.

      Thx for your help

    • September 21, 2016 at 2:38 pm #88564
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Any chance when the art was created that there is stuff on the art pasteboard that uses those colors? Or a layer that was no longer used (and is hidden)?

    • September 22, 2016 at 6:49 am #88598
      Dian Swarm
      Member

      Nope, this will happen on docs with only one layer and all is active.

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