Thank you for your reply.

Removing colored shaded regions is of no interest to me.

My aim is to associate comments/notes which are unique to each shaded region. That is why I want to, as I wrote, "determine the range" for each shaded region. Having that range will allow me to associate the text with the notes/comments. For each document, I have the comments separately in sequential list.

Is there a way in vba to find the range start and end points for each shaded text?