FM 8 - Can't Delete Color Definitions

[mbradley at techpubs.com]

Oh, and I looked in the MIF file for the colors and they aren't there!

= Mike Bradley


> I have some FM files that were created in Word some time ago, then
> imported into FM more recently.
> 
> In FM, we were able to remove all the artifacts from Word except for the
> color definitions. We are not using any of the Word colors in the FM
> files, but we can't delete them from the files' color catalogs, either.
> The colors are listed in the Color Definitions window and in the
> Character Designer window. They are labeled "RGB <RGB_number>", such as
> RGB 177,197,218. The usual FM procedure for deleting colors simply
> doesn't work; nor did Toolbox (it threw errors -17 and 12).