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How can I quickly find a Pantone Swatch number? The swatches are, for all intents and purposes, in random order... Typing a umber does not jump to the swatch.
The best way I find my swatches is to:
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Typing a number in the Color Picker when a Pantone library is open does jump to the swatch - CS6 on OS X 10.6.8. You have to type quite quickly, though - too much delay before a digit will be considered as a new number being started.
I'm unaware of a way to type a number into the Swatches panel, though.
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The best way I find my swatches is to:
* I've never found this not to work, but you may want to check step (4) that you have the correct Pantone book selected.
** Sometimes it helps to also build the color in CMYK from the Color Picker dialog box then switch back to Color Libraries dialog box and which ever library you choose, the color should automatically jump to its coorisponding swatch number.