Setting colour in design table

\$Color sets the colour of a part. We all know that. There's all kinds of tools around to help one calculated the necessary numbers to put in to get a certain color. I personnaly use an excel sheet I made way before I started to use SW.

While \$Color is all fine and well it seems to mean however that if a part exists which has an appearance/color assigned to a feature(s) that it won't influence those features.

Is there a way to set the appearance of a feature in a design table or is one doomed to have to rebuilt the part making sure that any and all superfluous colours have been removed before assigning them in a display table ?

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