Swapping colors in a color group?

[karenf1]

I created a color group of 6 CMYK colors for a large group of charts. I need to switch to a new color palate. Is there a way to swap the new six colors for the old ones? The only way I see is to copy all the 4 digit color percents for the C,M,Y & K into each swatch - is there an easier way? Many thanks! BTW, I'm in CS6. And of course - I am hoping that the colors now in the charts will update to the new palate as it changes.

I googled this and read that option dragging a swatch over the swatch in the color group would change it's color - but that isn't working. It would be lovely if it did!

[Ton Frederiks]

If you create a new color group with the new colors in the same order as you want them to replace the old colors you can use Recolor Artwork.

Just select your artwork

Choose: Edit > Edit Colors > Recolor Artwork

Click on the new color group

[karenf1]

Thank you! I will go try this! fingers crossed! Back in morning with full report!

[karenf1]

Ton, the weirdest thing is happening. I've brought in 6 new color swatches and keep trying to make a group of them - but they create a group -  but out of order. IT's weird, I'm not doing anything different - and .ai won't even let me rearrange them into the order I want. Would you have any clue what I'm doing wrong?

Well, finally - with swatches in large view I was able to rearrange them. but it was odd - swatches wouldn't come in in the order they were in - without my switching them around by had.

[Monika Gause]

karenf1 schrieb:

Ton, the weirdest thing is happening. I've brought in 6 new color swatches and keep trying to make a group of them - but they create a group - but out of order. IT's weird, I'm not doing anything different - and .ai won't even let me rearrange them into the order I want. Would you have any clue what I'm doing wrong?

Well, finally - with swatches in large view I was able to rearrange them. but it was odd - swatches wouldn't come in in the order they were in - without my switching them around by had.

It's always good to see what we're talking about.

Please. Post. A. Screenshot.

[Ton Frederiks]

How did you create these 6 new color swatches?

If you create objects, color them and add these colors to your swatches panel, they don't come in in the order you created.

As far as I can tell they are first ordered by the Hue angle from the HSB sliders.

Reordering them benefits from dragging large thumbnails.

[Mike_Gondek]

Yes the order you manually drag them by hand should be respected whether you are in list or thumbnail view in all sizes.

Th order on the left  side is controlled here