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Finding and replacing colors - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: InDesign 2021 Essential Training
Finding and replacing colors
- [Demonstrator] See this drop cap E over here in this Brown color. Well, I use that Brown color throughout my document. Of course, I made a color swatch, which you can see over here in the middle of my swatches panel. Now I like that color, but unfortunately my art director tells me she doesn't and she said, change it to a green swatch. I have one of those down here at the bottom of this panel. I'll just make that a little bit taller so you can see it. Now for a short document It's not that hard to find and change each instance of a color one at a time. But, well, what if I overlooked one that would be bad. And if it's a long document, well, that would take a long time. So one option to deal with this is to use styles, which I'll talk about in a later chapter, but I want to point out one quick and easy way to change colors in InDesign. And it's inside the fine change dialogue box, which you can get to by…
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