I appreciate that. Let's say I have an object already filled with a gradient, but I want to change one of the colors in the gradient. I can't double-click on the slider in the gradient panel, because that brings up a selection of gray-tone swatches. I can't single-click on a slider and use the color panel -because that doesn't work. I have to single-click on a slider and then use the background/foreground color box display on the control bar on the left (default setting) to change the color. I change my gradients all the time in an object, and either 1) I am doing it all wrong, or 2) Ai is just clunky with gradient modification. :banghead: