Creating a multi-part symbol

If you want your symbol to contain different colors, you must divide your design into parts. Each part of the symbol contains the design elements of one color. You can use the Symbol Editor to determine the form and structure of the symbol, but the parameters of the symbol, such as color and scale, are determined in the Representation Editor. (See Editing the representation styles)

You can rename and save a symbol file to a new location with the symbol file Save As window. To open the symbol file Save As window, right-click a symbol layer in the Maps tree and click Save As. (See About the symbol file Save As window)

Create a design. (See Designing a symbol)
From the Symbol menu in the Symbol Editor, click Duplicate Symbol.
In the Attributes window, type a number that will represent the symbol in the New box below Current SymbolId.
Type a label for the symbol in the New box below Description.
Click OK.
Keep the shapes that you want and use the Selection tools to delete all the other shapes that are destined for another color.
Change the style of the remaining shapes. (See Setting symbol representation)
Select the source symbol (See Selecting a symbol from the symbol file) and repeat for each part of the symbol.
From the File menu, click Save Symbol.