- Drag from Palette to Palette
- Create Your Gradients with Drag-and-Drop
- Create a Default Set of Colors
- Steal Colors from Another Document
- Not Just for Text Style SheetsBut Color Style Sheets Too
- Eyedropper Trick #2
- Save Time by Dragging and Dropping Color
- Delete Multiple Swatches
- If You Didnt Use It, Lose It
- Merge Swatches
- Change the Order of Your Swatches
- Save Tints as Swatches
- Avoid Tint Weirdness
- Tint Weirdness #2
- Name Color Swatches After Their Values
- How to Name Swatches (And Why You Should)
- Load the Pantone Colors
- Import Just a Few, Or All, of the Pantone Colors
- Speed Through the Swatches Palette
- The Smart Way to Edit Swatches
- Speed Through the Color Ramp
- Get Solid Black, Or Solid White, in One Click
- Get Your Colors in Gamut with One Click
- Create Perfect Shades
- Get the Color Palette into Tint Mode
- Help with Creating Colors
- One Click to No Fill or Stroke
- Swap the Fill and Stroke
- Return to the Default Black Stroke, No Fill
- Drag-and-Drop Colors from the Toolbox
- Get Live Gradient Previews
- Reapply the Last-Used Gradient
- Color Management when Importing Photos
- Gradient Palette Shortcut
- Make Sure All the Colors in Your Book Match
- Blue and Yellow Make Green
- Stop Playing Hit-or-Miss
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This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Make Sure All the Colors in Your Book Match
If you’re creating a book, magazine, or other project that uses multiple documents, it’s important that all your color swatches match exactly (in other words, you don’t want one version of red in one section, and then a slightly different shade in another). Well, InDesign lets you make sure all your colors match exactly by syncing all the swatches in your separate documents together, so they’re all using the exact same “red.” Here’s how: Go under the File menu, under New, and choose Book. Save your book (which brings up the Book palette), then press the + sign at the bottom of the palette to add the chapters you want sync’d together. Once you have all the chapters in your Book palette, choose Synchronize Book from the palette’s flyout menu. By default, it not only syncs your color swatches, but it syncs your Character Styles and Paragraph Styles as well. (If you want to sync only your color swatches, choose Synchronize Options from the flyout menu and turn off the checkboxes for Character Styles and Paragraph Styles.)
