Shading.BackgroundPatternColor Property (Word)
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.
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