Use ColorSort to reduce the selected embroidery to the minimum number of color blocks.
The final number of color blocks produced in the ColorSort process can vary, depending on any overlap between areas. If possible, it leaves only one color block for each thread color used. If necessary, trims are added to connect the areas that use the same thread color.
Select the embroidery, then choose Design > ColorSort.
Undo to return to the original colors.
ColorSort affects the structure of the embroidery:
If characters in a piece of lettering have initially been placed as separate color blocks, it is recommended to ColorSort once the desired colors have been selected, and before combining text with existing embroideries.
When you export an embroidery for stitching, it is ColorSorted unless you changed the default options.