Change spot colors
You can change the spot-color inks you have defined in a publication. You can also change the spot colors that are applied to objects in the publication. Inks are what a printer will use to print the publication on a press, the colors are what you use to design the publication. Spot colors can be different spot-color inks or can be one or more tints of a single spot-color ink.
If you are working with a commercial printing service to print your publication, it's a good idea to talk with someone from the service about how using spot-color inks will affect the cost of printing your publication.
Change a spot-color inkWhen you change a spot-color ink, you replace it with another ink, which you can choose from the Pantone Matching System or the Windows color palette, or define using the the RGB, CMYK, or HSL color model. When you change a spot-color ink, you will change the color of all the objects that use any tint of that ink.
- On the Tools menu, point to Commercial Printing Tools, and then click Color Printing.
- Click the Inks tab.
- Click the arrow next to the spot color ink you want to change, and then click Change.
- In the Change Ink dialog box, select the spot color you want from the options that are available in either the Standard or Custom tabs.
- Click OK.
- On the Tools menu, point to Commercial Printing Tools, and then click Color Printing.
- Click the Colors tab.
- Click the arrow next to the spot color you want to change, and then click Change.
- In the Change Color dialog box, click the color you want to change, and then adjust its tint using the Tint slider.
- Click OK twice.
Microsoft Publisher will update all objects that use the spot color you've changed to use the new tint.