Loading Swatches

So far I’ve discussed several ways to create a variety of swatch types, but that doesn’t mean all swatches have to be created directly inside your template. It’s easy to load color swatches from another InDesign document into your template. Simply choose Load Swatches from the Swatches panel menu, select another InDesign document or template, and click Open (Figure 9.11).

Figure 9.11. Load swatches from another InDesign document to save time and ensure consistency.

Tip

If you create color swatches with an InDesign document open, the swatches will be added to that file. However, if you create swatches with no documents open, ...

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