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Get/Set Project Custom Colors

If more than one person is working on a project, you might want to share a set of custom colors with other team members, and possibly the whole project.

Access:    Settings | Colors | Set Project Custom Colors
                  Settings | Colors |  Get Project Custom Colors

Use to:

  • Capture the project colors you have defined, in the project file, or
  • Retrieve a set of colors someone else has defined, from the project file

How To:

To set your project's custom colors in the project file, follow the steps below:

Step

Action

See Also

1

Define the project colors on the Standard Colors page of the Options dialog

Standard Colors

2

Select the Set Project Custom Colors option

The following message displays:

Project Custom Colors export successful. 16 custom colors saved to the project file.

 

3

Click on the OK button

 

 

To get your project's custom colors from the project file, follow the steps below:

Step

Action

See Also

1

Select the Get Project Custom Colors option

The following message displays:

Project Custom Colors import successful. 16 custom colors imported from the project file.

 

2

The colors are now made available in the color pallet of the Default Appearance dialog

Set an Element's Default Appearance