Know any reason why color swatch coverts to black when I copy and paste into another document?

I keep having issues when I copy and paste a table from one document to the next. Some of the PMS ink colors convert to black. Anyone have a clue?

In colors in the table or elsewhere in the file? Are you using table or cell styles? If so, did you define new ones or redifine the defualts? The general principle to remember when moving content from file to file is that anything like styles or swatches that appear with the same name in both documents will use the definition from the receiving file.
Anothe possibility, though less likely, is that you've used the ink manager to alias the spot color to black.

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