BackgroundPatternColorIndex Property

Applies To

Shading object.

Description

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

Can be one of the following WdColorIndex constants:

  • wdAuto
  • wdBlack
  • wdBlue
  • wdBrightGreen
  • wdDarkBlue
  • wdDarkRed
  • wdDarkYellow
  • wdGray25
  • wdGray50
  • wdGreen
  • wdNoHighlight
  • wdPink
  • wdRed
  • wdTeal
  • wdTurquoise
  • wdViolet
  • wdWhite
  • wdYellow

See Also

ColorIndex property, ForegroundPatternColorIndex property, Shading property, Texture property.

Example

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

Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range
myRange.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdTurquoise
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.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdGray25