Originally Posted by Stefan Blom

The macro recorder has limitations, that is, recording is never perfect. (But note that in some respects recording is less useful than it was in older versions of Word.)

Which change are you trying to make? If you just want to apply a standard color to the selection, you can use:

You can see a list of WdColorIndex constants if you press F2 to display the Object browser in the Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11).