[AccessD] Access to Word - colour an area

On 3/16/07, Andy Lacey <andy at minstersystems.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

Any more info?

> 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.

This may work. When you build the main merge doc, all you need to do
is insert 2 bookmarks. One before the area and one at the end, then
you should be able to colour the background.

I can whip up some sample code if needed.

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