[AccessD] Access to Word - colour an area

It's still a what-if at the moment. I'm going to see a potential client next
week. He's described the project and this is a part of it. I'm just wanting
to be forearmed.
I suspect it's possible anything could be inside the box, most likely text
and mailmerge entries, and all of it would want the coloured background. But
could it be done in a generic way by, I dunno, putting bookmarks at top left
and bottom-right of the area and selecting all between them, or something
like that? OTOH I don't know how you set a bookmark as the bootom-right of
an area.
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Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk



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To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access to Word - colour an area
Date: 16/03/07 14:05


On 3/16/07, Andy Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
> If you have a Word doc, to be used as the master for a mailmerge, and an
> area on it has a border round it, how would you (from Access) go about
> filling that area a different colour depending upon a value on someone's
> record? In its simplest form how would you use the Word object to identify
a
> bordered area and give it a different colour?
>
> (Thinks - wonder if anyone will get this before Bryan. There's a
challenge.)

On my way to a 2 hour meeting, but I do have a couple of questions.....

What is the area that is bordered? Text Box, Paragraph, table? Would
the merge field be in the area to be coloured?

I am assuming that you want to keep all your code in Access, correct?

PS, since this is Mail Merge, you'll probably get a better answer from
someone else, 'cause I don't use mm very often. Oh who's kidding who,
I don't do much any more besides sit in meetings. <sigh>

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