Color Palette Error

tableaucommunity@tableau.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:31:57 GMT

I created a custom color palette in my Preferences.tps file that is causing an error each time I try to open Tableau. The palette looks like this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Lemonless" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name="Custom_Linsomnia" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name="Custom_Suicide Underground" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name="Custom_Delta Holdings" type="regular" >

<color>#EFEFEF</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name="Custom_Is there a God" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name="Custom_Up In Smoke" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Dont You Go Down" type="regular" >

<color>#EDEBE6</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Dream Magnet" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_A Sense Of Freedom" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_*** and Intelligence" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Sales Numbers" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Futuristic World" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Phoenix Nebula RC141" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Siren Of The Sea" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_I'm such a" type="regular" >

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Metro type="regular" >

<color>#FFFFFF</color>

<color>#EEEEEE</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Blown Entrepreneur" type="regular" >

<color>#FFFFFF</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_LipstickOnHisCollar" type="regular" >

<color>#EDEDE1</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_wordless" type="regular" >

<color>#FFFFFF</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_Curiosity Killed" type="regular" >

<color>#EFFFCD</color>

</color-palette>

<color-palette name=“Custom_i'll send a nasty text” type="regular" >

<color>#EBEBEB</color>

</color-palette>

</preferences>

</workbook>

Each time I then restart or open Tableau I'm given this message "Errors occurred while trying to load the workbook "\\psf\Home\Documents\My Tableau Repository\Preferences.tps". The load was not able to complete successfully." When the details on the error are expanded, they say "Error parsing XML at line 3 of the file: xml processing instruction not at start of external entity"

Tableau will then load but the custom palettes will not appear.

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