Shading.BackgroundPatternColor Property

Word Developer Reference

Returns or sets the 24-bit color that's applied to the background of the Shading object. Read/write.

Syntax

expression.BackgroundPatternColor

expression   Required. A variable that represents a Shading object.

Remarks

This property can be any valid WdColor constant or a value returned by Visual Basic's RGB function.

Example

This example applies turquoise background shading to the first paragraph in the active document.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range
myRange.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
    wdColorTurquoise

This example adds a table at the insertion point and then applies light gray background shading to the first cell.

Visual Basic for Applications
  Selection.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
Set myTable = _
    ActiveDocument.Tables.Add(Range:=Selection.Range, _
    NumRows:=2, NumColumns:=2)
myTable.Cell(1, 1).Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = _
    wdColorGray25

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