Hi there!
I set up the highlight colors with custom labels and subsequently changed the label of a couple of the highlight colors. I thought the others would be automatically deleted but they continue to show up. (see screenshot).
How do I get rid of the duplicate/unnecessary ones?
Second question: I’d like to delete all the colors in the custom color swatch pallette below. Selecting with my mouse and deleting is not working (neither through the backspace nor delete buttons). I also tried dragging them out of the pallette, hoping they’d puff away, but that doesn’t work either. Any ideas?
Finally, how can I reset all highlight and text colors (in the color panel) back to the Scrivener’s default colors and labels?
Thanks for your response. I followed your guidance but Scrivener is not allowing me edit via the Format menu. However, I see the labels. I’ve attached 2 screenshots --which may help to diagnose the problem better.
Will resetting the global preferences reset all the settings, or just the settings within startup?
You may note that the colours themselves are not duplicates, they are all slightly different. You’re just looking at how Apple’s system for naming colours is a bit fuzzy. When you consider what it was designed for it makes sense—there are billions of possible colours but only so many words we can use to describe them, so its naming system is necessarily a bit fuzzy. You should be able to add more specificity though by creating entries in your Scrivener colour palette for these individual variations and giving them other names (even if just dud names like “Tangerine”).
Yes, the colours themselves aren’t duplicates. My issue was getting rid of the labels attached to the colours otherwise I have three different colours for the same label.
Trouble is, I cannot access all the labels in the scrivener colour settings (as seen in the screenshots I attached).
The first screenshot (above) shows only one of the labels. That screenshot is from the Format/colours menu. In screenshot 2- taken at the same time- all the labels are showing up. When I highlight a passage of text and right click using the mouse, the selection of highlight colours and duplicated labels all show up.
It needs to be fixed as it might be a bug.
I reset the startup option to default under preferences but that didn’t reset the original colours or original labels.
Oh, and after much time of fiddling with the custom colour swatch, it is possible to delete those custom colours—which is only possible under the Apple setting (not the Scrivener setting). Only then, is it possible to highlight the colour and delete.
In the end, I manually deleted all the colours and labels manually in both Apple and Scrivener settings. Then, I reinstated the colours with the labels, all the while praying I didn’t make a mistake.
It was a painstaking process.
This needs to be updated in the manual for users to reference.
This quirk is already documented on page 473, just below Figure 18.10.
It needs to be fixed as it might be a bug.
We can’t fix how Apple’s tools work, we only integrate with them. We also tend not to document them heavily—I don’t even want to think of how much documentation it would take to fully cover every facet of the colour palette. It’s a surprisingly powerful tool. So I tend to refer people to Apple’s documentation where that line between Scrivener and system tools it uses is crossed.
