How to disable automatic function of adding all used colors in document.

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September 19, 2017
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How to disable automatic function of adding all used colors in document. My Illustrator start to add all colors used in document even CMYK, and biuld huge group of swatches (making mess). How to turn it off. I want to have only spot colors used in document. I've searched options and forums, and I'm alone with this problem.

Illustrator 21.1.0

Mac OSX 10.10.5

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Bill Silbert

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You can then go under the swatch Panel pull-down menu choose "Select all unused" and then delete all the excess colors.

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Piter_HAuthor

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Bill, that's correct, but i have swatches which are used , so this option doesn't work.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Spot colors can't be used in Illustrator without first creating a swatch. So you don't need to create them afterwards.

So actually I don't know what your problem is.

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Piter_HAuthor

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Thank You for respond

But You don't understand, since 10 years of my work with Illustrator swatch panel shows only swatches of spot colors and manual added swatch. Now swatch panel shows all colors used in project, all kind of cmyk and it add it automatically.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Illustrator doesn't add anything automatically.

Used swatches get added when you use the function to add them. They don't get added automatically.

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