Apply 1 color palette to 40 AI files, at once...?

I have built 40 charts, using PMS colors. Now I have to convert all these charts to CMYK.
I have a color pallete saved, as a separate doc., and I can pull it in through the library.
Is there a way to do this swatch change globally?
Swatches names stayed the same! I just converted all settings to CMYK!
Thanks!!!

If your using PSCS2 I assume you also have Adobe Bridge.
The best I can come up with is a workflow that filters RAW files out of a mixed file folder into their own folder, then opens that folder in Bridge, from where, with a command-a (to select all) and command-o (to open), you get all of your RAW files up in the RAW converter.
1. Get Specified Finder Items (Make this source folder)
2. Get folder contents
3. Filter finder items
4. New Folder (Target for filtered results)
5. Open finder items (Open with Bridge)
I've tried adding an Open with Photoshop as a last step and for some reason it bypasses the RAW converter and pops them straight into PS.
IMHO, it's just as easy to use the Adobe Bridge, and open the files you want direct from there.

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Sorry to cause confusion, I am pretty good at that :)
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i have a requirement for several Cockpits, the values of all diagramms of actual year should have a special color, which is not defined in the color palettes Tradeshow, Streamline or Enjoy.
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I've been creating animted gifs using Matlab and the ImageMagick suite (convert). If I open the gifs in Preview, the color comes out fine in each frame; however i I use Quicktime (which is necessary, that's what we use for presentations) the color palette will change as the frames play.
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I'm not familiar to the software but I can guess what is happening.
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Hi BI Experts,
we are trying to create a custom color palette, which we want to apply to all your WAD charts.
Can anyone tell us how to do this?
Of course we can customize the colors in each chart, but that's a hell of a lot of work. Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any way to save the custom colors, but we have to recreate the colors with the color picker for every single chart.
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<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px; height: 340px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #DAFFB6;
overflow: auto;"
title="this text can be pasted into an Automator 'Run AppleScript' action">
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input: a list of Finder items received from a "Label Finder Items" action
output: a list of Finder items to be passed on to a following action
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Hello everybody,
is there a plugin or a feature in Photoshop CS6 I haven't discovered yet that offers me a sort of color palette that looks like the 'Color' feature in the 'Window' menu in Adobe Illustrator CC 2014? The palette offered by the plugin should deliver the colors contained in the currently opened picture.
In Gimp e.g. there's a feature in the colors menu that delivers a gradient of all the colors contained in the image.
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AppleWorks 6.2.9 for Mac
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Hi All,
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[Color] [Color_Name]
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Thanks!

I came upon the NativeDragManager class of the CS Extension. We can use it to drag and drop objects from the panel to the application document. For this we use the ClipBoard and specify the format of the clipboard data. There are quite a few formats, namely, bitmap, text, url, file, etc. However, I couldn't use any of these so that I might drag a color from my panel to the document.
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