MACROMEDIA FREEHAND 10-USING FREEHAND Use Manual page 264

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Drag a color from the color box of the Color Mixer or Tints panel to either the
empty space at the bottom of the color list or onto the color drop box (the
down arrow button) at the top of the Swatches panel. Drag on to an existing
color swatch to replace a color.
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In Windows, right-click any color box in the Color Mixer or Tints panel and
choose Add to Swatches from the pop-up menu. This bypasses the dialog box
and adds the color with a default name.
In the Swatches panel, select a color name.
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Click the triangle in the upper right corner of the Swatches panel to open the
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Options pop-up menu, and choose Duplicate.
The new color is named "Copy of [original color]."
Colors listed in the Swatches panel must have a name. Unnamed colors appear in
the drawing if you've added colors from the color mixer or a pop-up color palette.
When you add a color to the Swatches panel, FreeHand assigns a name based on
the color's RGB or CMYK values. By default, dragging a different color swatch
onto that color will rename it according to its new values. You can turn off this
automatic renaming in Preferences.
If you drag a swatch into the Swatches panel and drop it on a color that has
something other than the default FreeHand name, the color is changed but not its
name. For example, if you have imported a purple color named Grape into the
Swatches panel, and you drag a red color swatch onto it, Grape will now be red.
If you add two or more identical colors from the Color Mixer or Tints panels to
the Swatches panel and use the default color names, FreeHand displays the copies
with a dash and number after the color name, as the following illustration shows:
If you duplicate a color using the Duplicate command from the Swatches panel's
pop-up options menu, the new color is named "Copy of [original color]" followed
by a number.