Send to color from FC timeline

Color does not appear in list of send to options when I click in the timeline of Final Cut Pro. It does appear in the "send to" list accessed from the top of the screen.
Any idea why?

Yep - that's the way it works.
You don't send cuts out off your tl.
You send the seq out from the Browser by rt clicking your seq>Send to>Color
or from the File menu.

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Here are the answers...
Restart: the application and computer (usually the solution to every problem in life)
Created a new project In FCP.
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"Have you checked that you don't have any nested sequences in your timeline?...and you have read the manual about preps for sending from FCP to Color right?"
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Do you mean...
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