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my cc
Inspiring
Nov 11, 2025 11:35 AM UTC
Question

Find a color in object format

Hi,

 

I tried to find a specific color. In my case a Pantone color. But there were no objects in the document with that color, so it was not possible to use “Find Color.” I had to remove “style by style” to find out what format this color has.

 

 

Is there a better and faster way to find such "hidden" colors?

 

Thanks!

mycc

 

Indesign, Windows 11, latest versions

2 replies

Mike Witherell
Community Expert
Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
Community Expert
Nov 11, 2025 1:41 PM UTC

Hi CC,

I probably misunderstand what you mean, but...

Do you mean you want to find hidden colors that are not present in the Swatches panel?

Try clicking on Swatches panel menu button (≣) in the upper right of the panel (also referred to as the hamburger icon) and then choose Add Unnamed Colors.

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Mike Witherell
my ccAuthor
Inspiring
Nov 12, 2025 12:11 PM UTC

Thanks for your help!

 

Not quite. I wanted to clean up a final InDesign document, removing all unused formats and colors. When I selected “select all unused colors,” one color was not selected that I hadn't used at all—however, it was assigned to an object format that was still active and in use, but I had recolored one object individually.
Now I had to delete my objects one by one to find out in which object format this unused color had been set. I only found it by chance at the very end...

And there's probably no solution for this, not even with a script, right?

 

 

 

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