Fill an object or text with a PANTONE® spot or PANTONE® process color
If you are working with a commercial printing service to produce your publication, be sure you go over any color changes you want with someone from the service.
Fill an object or text with a PANTONE process color
Before you begin this task, make sure your publication is set up for process-color printing (Tools menu, Commercial Printing Tools, Color Printing).
- Right-click the object or the text you want to fill, and then click Format <object>. For example, to fill an AutoShape, click Format AutoShape.
- Click the Colors and Lines tab.
Under Fill, click the arrow next to the Color box, and then click More Colors.
- Click the Custom tab.
- In the Color model list, click PANTONE.
- Click the PANTONE Process tab.
- Select the color you want, and then click OK.
You can select colors by clicking a color swatch. If you know the color name, you can type it in the Find Color Name box.
Fill an object or text with a PANTONE spot color
- Set up your publication for spot-color printing and specify a PANTONE spot color.
How?
- On the Tools menu, point to Commercial Printing Tools, and then click Color Printing.
- Click Spot Color(s).
- Click Add to add a new PANTONE spot color, or click Modify to change an existing spot color.
- Click the Custom tab.
- In the Color model list, click PANTONE.
- Click the PANTONE Solid tab.
- On the Custom tab, click P ANTONE in the Color Model list.
- On the PANTONE Solid tab, click the color swatch you want.
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To select an additional spot color, click Add.
- Right-click the object or text you want to fill, and then click Format.
- Under Fill, click the arrow next to the Color box, and then click the color you want on the palette.