Word (XP) Highlight Colours

[plumbob2]

Hi Guys

Hope you can help. How can I use a different highlight colour (for highlighting text) other than the 15 colours available from the highlight pen drop down menu? I am wanting to pick a shade in a similar way that you can from the font colour drop down menu.

Thanks

 

[fumei]

As far as I know you can only use (at least through VBA) the vbColorConstants. You may{/b] be able to change through some API call. The constants are:

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
These can be used on OBJECTS[/b} from the hapes collection. With objects you may also use direct RGB values. However, certain properties (and the Highlighter is one of them) only allow for constants from the ColorIndex. They are:
wdAuto
wdBlack
wdBlue
wdBrightGreen
wdByAuthor
wdDarkBlue
wdDarkRed
wdDarkYellow
wdGray25
wdGray50
wdGreen
wdNoHighlight
wdPink
wdRed
wdTeal
wdTurquoise
wdViolet
wdWhite
wdYellow


Gerry