Troubleshoot using color schemes

An object changes color when I paste it into another publication.

Your object is filled with a scheme color, and you are pasting it into a publication with a different color scheme. The object is automatically filled with a color of the new publication's color scheme.

If you want the object's color to remain unchanged, you need to fill it with a non-scheme color.

To select a non-scheme color, click the arrow next to the F ill Color button , and then select an option from More Colors or Fill Effects.

I changed my color scheme but some objects didn't change color.

 Any objects that you filled with non-scheme colors remain the same when you change the color scheme.

I can't change one color in a scheme.

  1. On the Format menu, click Color Scheme.
  2. In the Color Schemes task pane, click Custom Color Scheme.
  3. Click the arrow next to each color you want to change, and then select a new color.

    To see more color choices, click More Colors.

    To use a shade or tint, click Fill Effects.

Color schemes are unavailable.

Your publication is probably set up for spot-color printing. To make color schemes available, you need to change the color model to composite RGB.

  1. On the Tools menu, point to Commercial Printing Tools, and then click Color Printing.
  2. Under Print all colors as, select Composite RGB.
  3. Click OK.