How to change Black to Spot Orange keeping the gradient?

[shalo54]

I am trying to change all the Blacks to Spot Orange on the attached file keeping the screen and gradient the same.

Here is the link to the Ai file:

I would appreciate any help

[Ton Frederiks]

You can try this:

Select your orange spot in the Swatches panel.

Click the folder icon to create a new swatch group.

Select All and choose Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork

Select Colors: 1

Replace by the orange spot.

[shalo54]

It almost worked , I learned something new today.

it still left off 3 other black colors for some reason.

Thank you

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear that helped.

When I do this, , select all and change to 1 spot there are no other colors (blacks) left.

[shalo54]

let me try it again

[shalo54]

Please see the video, I might be doing something wrong

[Ton Frederiks]

You left the field Colors to Auto, try changing it to 1

[shalo54]

It still has an extra Black

[Ton Frederiks]

[shalo54 · Accepted solution]

That is strange, 

I changed my preset to Single Color on the left side and it worked.

Thank you again

[Ton Frederiks]

Good to hear it worked. In your screendump there is no arrow next to the black, which means that will not be converted.

[shalo54]

Oh ok, Thank you again