Capture selected Background Pattern Shading (Word

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Dear All,

I managed to do the following:

Set dlgshadingborders = Dialogs(wdDialogFormatBordersAndShading)
With dlgshadingborders
.DefaultTab = wdDialogFormatBordersAndShadingTabShading
.Show
End With

to launch the Format Borders and Shading dialog box.

Could somebody show me how I could assign the selected Background pattern and colour to a variable when the user clicks OK, and that variable be used on the selected table?

Thank you very much in advance.

Regards
Rid

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If you use the Show method, the color selected by the user will automatically be applied. If you want to set it yourself, you must use the Display method of the dialog. It doesn’t apply the settings.

Sub SetFillColor()
Dim lngColor As Long
If Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) = False Then
MsgBox “Please position the insertion point in a table.”, vbExclamation
Exit Sub
End If
With Dialogs(wdDialogFormatBordersAndShading)
.DefaultTab = wdDialogFormatBordersAndShadingTabShading
.Display
lngColor = .BackgroundRGB
End With
With Selection.Tables(1).Shading
.Texture = wdTextureNone
.ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
.BackgroundPatternColor = lngColor
End With
End Sub

The VBA help subject Built-in Dialog Box Argument Lists provides all available arguments for dialogs, but without any explanation.

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Thank you so much Hans.

At last I am getting somewhere but not there yet.

I guess I did not make myself clear enough.

The final objective of the code is to let user highlight alternate rows with selected pattern Style and Color.

I am this far.

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Dim dlgshadingborders As Dialog
Dim lastRow As Long
Dim i As Integer
Dim lngColor As Long

Set dlgshadingborders = Dialogs(wdDialogFormatBordersAndShading)
With dlgshadingborders
.DefaultTab = wdDialogFormatBordersAndShadingTabShading
.Display
lngColor = .BackgroundRGB
End With
MsgBox lngColor
lastRow = Selection.Information(wdMaximumNumberOfRows)
If lastRow <= 3 Then
MsgBox "No need for shading"
Exit Sub
End If
For i = 3 To lastRow
Selection.Tables(1).Rows(i).Select
With Selection.Tables(1).Rows(i).Shading
.Texture = wdTexture10Percent
.ForegroundPatternColor = lngColor
End With
i = i + 1
Next i
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How can I shade the row with selected Texture style instead of fixing it to wdTexture10Percent ?

Thank you so much in advance.

Regards
Rid

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I’m sorry, I don’t know how to do that using the dialog. The list of built-in dialog arguments doesn’t include anything that refers to Texture.

Perhaps the following will work:
– In the code, select the first row you want to shade.
– Then open the dialog with the .Show method.
– When the user clicks OK, the settings will be applied to the selected row.
– Store the texture and pattern settings of the row in variables.
– Loop through the other rows and apply the settings.

Note: you can loop through alternate rows as follows:

For i = 3 To lastRow Step 2
…
Next i

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Genius…genius….

Thank you so much…..I have managed to solve it.

Thank you.

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You don’t specify which version of Word you wanted to do this alternate shading in. Word 2002 and 2003 both have Table Styles which allow for this thing to be applied automatically. The benefits of using a table style are that you don’t need VBA code to apply it and the table automatically adjusts the banding if rows are added or subtracted.

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Thanks Andrew.

Maybe I should re-look into Table Autoformatting.

At the current moment, I found using VBA for shading easier, as the table size (number of rows and columns) on the documents are more or less fixed, ie. hardly any addition to the size. Apart from the shading, I also did formatting to the cells contents paragraph, which undeniably can be done with Table Autoformatting too. But yes, I will definitely re-look into Table Autoformatting.

Thank you once again. This forum has been super-resourceful.

PS. I did put down the version of Word I am using (Word 2003), but I guess my subject matter was too long, that the version was pushed out the box.

Regards
Rid

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Some browsers cut off the subject when you post.

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I used Firefox for this thread.

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Yes, FireFox is known to truncate the combined subject + version to 50 characters.

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The cut-off occurs, I believe, when you use Preview, which we definitely encourage. The subject part and the version part get added together, and then both are subject to the maximum field size of 50. IE handles this in a different way: instead of only passing the maxlength number of characters to the server, it restricts the user from adding any more than the maxlength number of characters to the field; any edits require you to shorten the field before adding more characters. The Firefox method probably is better from a security perspective, but there is some loss of context on the boards.

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