I have a couple of colours in my swatch palette that I am unable to delete - please see the attached screen grab. When I select the individual colours the trash bin cannot be activated.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
It is possible to set a Spot color to Process when the spot color comes in via a placed image—you can convert spots to process by editing the swatch or you can use ink manager. Here you can see I've converted the spot to process, but the trash icon is still grayed out because the color is used by the image.
It's not always obvious what placed images use a spot, so you can use Preflight to find palced art using the color. Set the problem swatch back to spot and make a preflight profile that doesn't allow Spot Color:
Here I have an AI file that contains the spot color set to 0% tint so the spot color usage isn't obvious:
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