Hi Terry,
I had a look into your designs. Expert Stitch Manager is functioning correctly, even I did not test it.
Did you ever open up your object list? Here you can see that each group of objects forming a letter has 3 colors itself, which means three different thread colors and three changes when letter "I" is finnished followed by the same procedure for the "M" with the only difference, that the three color are the same than in the first letter. This is followed with each letter. That means, three different thread colors in the design, but 5 times 3 colors changes which makes 15 color changes when you are at the end of the design.
Same applies to the second design. 26 groups of objects with two thread colors each. Every group is sewn first green then blue, which make 2 color changes for one group forming a letter. 26 x 2 are 52 color changes.
Even with 21E you can re-arrange the colors and let stitch out the design color by color. But be aware, it might work for a design in this size; it also might happen, that the single parts in different colors of one group do not line up due to fabric push and pull. If that happens, keep the files as they are.
HTH |