- 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
If You Didn’t Use It, Lose It
When you want to send your document to a printer or service provider, you should make the document as simple as possible to alleviate any potential doubt or confusion as to what you did. Therefore, you should delete any unused color swatches from the Swatches palette so that your printer will know exactly which colors are used in the document. InDesign has no single command to do this, but you can do it in two steps. Choose Select All Unused from the Swatches palette’s flyout menu. This will highlight all your unused swatches, then just click the Trash icon at the bottom of the Swatches palette to delete them all in one click.