Stripping color definitions from .fm files

[Melanie Raney]

Anybody know an easy and quick way to delete several color definitions
from a document at once?

When we paste something from sources such as web pages, pdfs, or other
not-to-template docs into our .fm files, a bunch of non-standard color
definitions are introduced (sometimes hundreds). These non-standard
colors come before our standard colors alphabetically in the color
palette list. To select one of our defined colors, we have to scroll for
miles to get to ours in the list... annoying and time consuming.

It would seem an easy solution to rename our color definitions to fall
at the top of the list. But at this point, our template is set in stone,
and we have hundreds of files using these color defs. Plus, I want to
get rid of the undesired colors, so new writers don't feel tempted to
select them...

BTW, we're using FM 7.0p576. Thanks for any help --Melanie

raney at earthdecision.com
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Melanie Raney 
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