Rats. The [none] (no-color) swatch is stubborn.

I was able to remove the [registration] swatch from the mix by making sure it's at the head of the palette and adding a (If swatchIndex>1) test to the script. But I can't get rid of the [none] swatch no matter what I do. Illustrator must treat it as a special case so that it cannot be referred to by index number.

Help, James!

One other thing: Not for nothing, but...

lets say I have 600 different objects in illustrator (just little circles with a fill color, no stroke) and 6 different colors that these circles should be. That means, I'd like about a 100 to be one color, 100 another color, etc.

...is not exactly the same thing as...

select all 600 and just tell Illustrator that I have these 6 colors and I want to apply them to the selected objects randomly

What you want is a uniform distribution of those six colors but in no discernible pattern. That's not true random assignment, and this script won't get you there even if got the unwanted swatches out of the mix.

No obvious solution here.

Please try the link again. I've put the file back up on the server.

And the link is dead again. Mind putting it back up?

OK. It's back. URL remains the same.

Jacob.

Thanks, Harron!!

Glad this is useful, Div.

Unfortunately, compound path items are handled separately in scripting. There is no simple fill command, so subpaths would have to be individually addressed. Then, you'd have to decide how the individual path items within a compound shape (including knockouts) would be handled.

Not saying it can't be done... just that now we're going considerably beyond the original intent of this simple script. And I'm not sufficiently facile with scripting to whip off a solution. I can't think of anything other than the tedious process of busting up compound paths (e.g. with the pathfinder) to get around this limitation.

I appreciate the offer to donate, but that's unnecessary.