Selecting Unused Colours in Illustrator

[Ruthless Cow]

Dumb question perhaps -

When I select unused colours in my Illustrator file swatches it doesn't select all the unused colours. It's just a slight annoyance - but I wondered if there was a way to do this better, or if it's just a glitch.

Cheers!

[RichieGoodtimes]

You may have stray points with those colors assigned. Lock down the colors that are supposed to be there and select all and see what's left.

Or it's a bug. I dunno.

[lil_tuffy]

It's a bug. It happens even if you do it first thing in a new document. Or at least it does in CS3 and 4. I can't remember if it does in 5.

[Ruthless Cow]

There's no extra colours, like tuffy says, it even does it on a blank document.

Actually it leaves more colours for me in CS5 - which I just got. That's why it bugged me enough to ask about it.

Cheers guys!

[matthewthirteen]

Do you make custom guides? If you made a custom guide, it still counts the color in there even after you convert it.

[Ruthless Cow]

No custom guides - for me it does this even with a brand new blank document.

It doesn't do it for you? Which version are you using? Maybe there is some preference I'm overlooking that's generating those extra colours?

[Ruthless Cow]

Here's what I'm left with if I select and trash the unused colours on a blank doc:

[Mark McCormick]

always the same color swatches, or do they change?

[B-DROID]

Yeah, those are the ones. One from the grayscale palette and that warm color palette as well. Just drag 'em to the trash.

[Ruthless Cow]

Mark - always the same, but they were different swatches in CS4

B-Droid - Yeah, I just drag them to the trash each time, but it is annoying.

Thanks guys