My apologies Andrew, I didn't see your second last post (the one that begins "As Charles and I have both pointed out") before i made my last post.

That's an interesting point you made about it not working on footnotes that are different colours but it isn't relevant at the minute as any footnotes that are coloured are coloured completely. However the point about the paragraph mark may well be; if it is then it can be changed to suit.

But now that we know that I'm using only the exact word colour red (or blue or whatever) and not any custom colour there shouldn't be any further problems? The code I've already been given for moving the footnotes works perfectly, so now it's just a case of adding a colour to the selection - I don't think there's any more guesswork involved for you?

Thanks for your help