Colour code mail merge header table cell backgrounds

[ScotsMaverick]

Hi,



So here's the problem that's been challenging me the last few hours. I've recently been creating a mail merged document which I had hoped to have generating different coloured headers for each mail merged page depending on a mail merged field in the header table called "Category".

The goal is to change this cell's background colour on every page depending on the text that has been mail merged into the cell. I've previously done a bit of amateur VBA using excel, but the difficulties of selecting post-mail merged header cells using bookmarks in word are defeating me.

It's rough but here is the code skeleton

Sub ColourCode()

Dim Cat1 As String
Dim Cat2 As String
Dim Cat3 As String
Dim Cat4 As String
Dim Cat5 As String
Dim X As Integer
Dim Ctext As String

Cat1 = "Category: 1 - Easy fix"
Cat2 = "Category: 2 - Instrument tubing fix"
Cat3 = "Category: 3 - Further assessment"
Cat4 = "Category: 4 - Clamp"
Cat5 = "Category: 5 - Engineering"

Documents.Open FileName:="C:\Users\me\Documents\Letters1.docm"

X = ActiveDocument.Pages.Count

For Each ActiveDocument.Tables In ActiveDocument

If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Category").Range.Text = Cat1 Then
    Bookmarks("Category").Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdBlue
ElseIf ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Category").Range.Text = Cat2 Then
    Bookmarks("Category").Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdGreen
ElseIf ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Category").Range.Text = Cat3 Then
    Bookmarks("Category").Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdRed
ElseIf ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Category").Range.Text = Cat4 Then
    Bookmarks("Category").Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdYellow
ElseIf ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Category").Range.Text = Cat5 Then
    Bookmarks("Category").Range.Shading.BackgroundPatternColorIndex = wdPink
End If

Next

End Sub

Cheers to anyone that can help