If you’ve used a custom colour for quite a bit of text in your document and want to replace it with another custom colour, you have two options:
- If the colour is part of a style, modify the font colour in the style’s settings—this should change all instances immediately. I won’t discuss this further.
- If the colour has been applied manually (i.e. not part of a style), then you’ll need to do a find and replace to find all instances of colour A and replace them with colour B.
Here’s how to change a manually applied custom colour using find and replace:
- Open the Find and Replace dialog (Ctrl+H).
- Make sure the cursor is in the Find field.
- Click More.
- Click Format.
- Choose Font.
- Click the drop-down arrow for Font Color.
- Click More Colors.
- Enter the RGB values you want to find (e.g. 255, 51, 153).
- Click OK. The text under the Find field should show the RGB values you selected; for example: Font Color: Custom Color (RGB(255,51,153)).
- Place your cursor in the Replace field.
- Repeat Steps 4 to 7.
- Enter the RGB values you want to use for the replace (e.g. 230, 131, 76).
- Click OK. The text under the Find field should show the RGB values you selected; for example: Font Color: Custom Color (RGB(230,131,76)).
- Click Find Next, then click Replace for the first one found.
- Repeat Step 14 until all are found, or, if you are confident that you won’t mess up anything else, click Replace All.