How to delete a spot colour swatch set up incorrectly

Hi i'm running indesign CC2014 and having problems deleting a spot colour swatch 877 initial set up incorrectly as a lab spot colour, rather than choosing from the colour books
I've since converted it to a processed lab colour and still it won't delete. I also can't i find the colour and where it is used in my document.
I've tried to add metallic coated 877c (correctly this time) swatch again but it won't allow two swatches with the same name.
Can anyone help as i really need to correct this for the printers.

Is there anyway to find this out as i'm dealing with a 60 page brochure and not easy to manually find.
You can use the preflight panel to find all instances of a spot color.
In the lower left corner of the doc window you can define a preflight profile and apply it to the document:
Here I've made a profile named No Spots with Spot color checked under Color Spaces not Allowed
With Preflight on the profile will list any placed objects using a spot. in this case a PS monotone named Untitled-1

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