[AccessD] Access to Word - colour an area

Hi again Bryan. Looks like it can all be done in Access so thanks anyway but
should be ok.

-- Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk 

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> Thanks Bryan. I should know tonight what's needeed.
> 
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> Andy Lacey
> http://www.minstersystems.co.uk
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Access to Word - colour an area
> Date: 19/03/07 16:45
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> 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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