Global and Spot Swatches can not be edited

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January 29, 2026
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Windows 11 Enterprise, v24H2 on a 13th gen Intel R Core i7-13700K (3.40 GHz), 128 Mb Graphics Card and 32 gb RAM, Adobe Illustrator V30.0.

I am no longer able to edit any global or spot swatch. All options are grayed out. The only way I can do it is to copy the swatch and edit it before I save it. Once it is saved, all links to the option panel are grayed out again. I work for a financial institution so all access to Libraries and automatic updates are turned off. I can’t even delete the swatch. This is driving me crazy and causing issues.

kimberly_5633Author

Participant

I had my IT department reload the 29.8.4 version and my swatches are back to normal. I can’t load the 30.1 because it is beta and they don’t let us have beta versions. But they will let us load patches when needed. Maybe this should be a bug report?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You may have done this already, but when unexpected things happen, restarting your machine or resetting Preferences sometimes help.

kimberly_5633Author

Participant

Yep, I’ve done all the things. The screen shot is from a fresh file after I restarted my system. I can’t uninstall with out my IT department getting involved so I am trying to avoid doing that.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clarke

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I see, there is probably not much you can do if you depend on IT for updates (there is a 30.1 version) or reverting to older versions.

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