Prepping Final Print Files in Illustrator

Rarely do I ever prepare print files in Illustrator, but have had to from time to time. I've run into a problem in the past and want to figure out a way to avoid it (InDesign is the easy solution). That problem is this: process colors in a spot document (or vice versa). Most of the time I'm very good about organizing everything, but sometimes I have to leverage from a client's documents. When I come to the preparing the final art, I tend to select and delete all unused swatches. The problem with Illustrator is, you can delete all unused swatches, but still have colors not assigned to a swatch still in the art. Is there a good way to deal with this problem out of Illustrator?

I see. That's actually pretty smart. So it adds colors from the artwork to the swatch panel. I think I'll start using that function. Thanks!

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