Hi,
I am creating custom colors for highlighting in the colors panel. The system automatically gives it a name, “Mercury”, every time. So I have a list of colors now that are all called Mercury. How can I change the names of the colors, so the association of the highlight color and its purpose becomes more obvious?
Thanks,
Robert
I’d never even realised that my custom colours (which I’ve added to gradually over the years) even had their own names until I looked in the Format/Highlight menu in Scrivener!
However, I then found this in the Scrivener manual:
“These are named automatically by the macOS system. You may find similar colours will acquire the same name, this is normal; the names should be considered conveniences, not identifiers.”
Normally to rename a colour in the Colour Box (cmd-shift-c) Palette pane (third along), you just click and hold on the colour’s name and it will become editable. This works for Scrivener’s colours and for ones you create yourself – it doesn’t work to rename Apple’s built-in crayons or colours, of course.
In the screenshot, I’m editing the Scrivener’s first highlight colour ‘Yellow Marker’ to read ‘Highlight’, which will now appear in Scrivener’s menus as the name of that colour.
Doesn’t that work for you?
