This worked also. Thanks some more. I don't think I would have been able to figure it out from the documentation alone.

More questions:
I saved the patterns to a user defined library and a did like wise for the brushes I made (which were different combinations of dashes and shapes).

I notice though there seems is no way to edit libraries (files) directly to remove from or add to them. They appear blank when I opened them but store the info in them somehow. The only way I could add or remove from either library was to select specific patterns or brushes from their respective swatches and then save over their existing libraries. No way to at least append a new pattern to a library?

Comment: there are so many swatches/panels and specialized tools to keep track of, very hard to get a handle on it all.