Conditional formatting of drop-down menu items

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12-31-2021, 10:25 PM

gmayor

Windows 10 Conditional formatting of drop-down menu items

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You don't need a macro for this. The colour of the placeholder text of a content control is dependent on the built-in placeholder text character style. You can modify the colour of that style from grey to red in that document.
If you want to do that with a macro, you need the line

Code:

ActiveDocument.Styles("Placeholder Text").Font.Color = wdColorRed

You may find https://www.gmayor.com/insert_content_control_addin.htm useful

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