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When you start a new drawing, an empty color palette, called the Document palette, appears docked in the lower-left corner of the drawing window. Every time you use a color in your drawing, it’s automatically added to the Document palette. However, if you prefer to control which colors are added to the Document palette, you can disable the automatic updates and add colors manually.
An example of the Document palette before (above) and after (below) colors are added to a document.
You can add colors from a color palette, an external image, a color picker, or a color-related dialog box, such as the Uniform fill dialog box. In addition, you can add colors from an imported image or object.
Drag a bitmap to the Document palette to add colors.
When you open documents that were created in a previous version of Corel DESIGNER, only color styles and spot colors are added to the Document palette. However, you can add all colors from an existing drawing to the Document palette.
You can clear the Document palette of any unwanted or unused colors by removing colors individually or resetting the palette to remove all unused colors at once.
| To disable the automatic adding of color to the Document palette |  |
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On the Document palette, click the flyout button
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update.
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By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom of the application window. |
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You can also disable the automatic adding of color by clicking Tools 
Customization, clicking Color palette in the Customization list of
categories, and disabling the Automatically update the document palette
check box.
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| To manually add colors to the Document palette | |
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When dragging most vector objects to the palette, you add all object colors to
the palette. When dragging a bitmap, you can specify the number of colors
that you want to be added to the palette. If an object includes a fountain fill,
texture fill, or pattern fill, only colors that are defined during the fill creation
are supported. Colors from PostScript fills are not supported.
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By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom
of the application window.
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| To add colors from an existing drawing to the Document palette | |
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Open a drawing.
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On the Document palette, click the flyout button
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document.
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By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom of the application window. |
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If you have a document with both vector and bitmap images, and you want to
add only the colors from the vector images to the Document palette, specify 0
in the Add colors from bitmap dialog box.
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If the drawing was created in a previous version of Corel DESIGNER and it
includes custom spot colors, they appear in the Document palette.
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| To remove a color from the Document palette | |
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Click a color swatch on the Document palette.
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On the Document palette, click the flyout button
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By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom of the application window. |
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You can also remove all colors that are no longer used from the Document
palette by clicking the flyout button
, choosing Palette, and clicking Reset
palette.
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| To reset the Document palette | |
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On the Document palette, click the flyout button
, choose Palette, and click
Reset palette.
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By default, the Document palette is docked above the status bar at the bottom of the application window. |
| To hide the Document palette | |
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Click Window Color palettes Document palette.
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Hiding the Document palette does not disable the automatic adding of color.
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, hold down Ctrl, and then click the image until you add the colors that you want.