BackgroundPatternColor Property

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

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BackgroundPatternColor Property

       

Returns or sets the 24-bit color that's applied to the background of the Shading object. Can be any valid WdColor constant or a value returned by Visual Basic's RGB function. Read/write.

WdColor can be one of these WdColor constants.
wdColorGray625
wdColorGray70
wdColorGray80
wdColorGray875
wdColorGray95
wdColorIndigo
wdColorLightBlue
wdColorLightOrange
wdColorLightYellow
wdColorOliveGreen
wdColorPaleBlue
wdColorPlum
wdColorRed
wdColorRose
wdColorSeaGreen
wdColorSkyBlue
wdColorTan
wdColorTeal
wdColorTurquoise
wdColorViolet
wdColorWhite
wdColorYellow
wdColorAqua
wdColorAutomatic
wdColorBlack
wdColorBlue
wdColorBlueGray
wdColorBrightGreen
wdColorBrown
wdColorDarkBlue
wdColorDarkGreen
wdColorDarkRed
wdColorDarkTeal
wdColorDarkYellow
wdColorGold
wdColorGray05
wdColorGray10
wdColorGray125
wdColorGray15
wdColorGray20
wdColorGray25
wdColorGray30
wdColorGray35
wdColorGray375
wdColorGray40
wdColorGray45
wdColorGray50
wdColorGray55
wdColorGray60
wdColorGray65
wdColorGray75
wdColorGray85
wdColorGray90
wdColorGreen
wdColorLavender
wdColorLightGreen
wdColorLightTurquoise
wdColorLime
wdColorOrange
wdColorPink

expression.BackgroundPatternColor

expression   Required. An expression that returns a Shading object.

Example

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

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.

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