See, for example: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-...l-shading.html

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I looked into this a bit, and shading coloring seems to be an odd, complicated beast in Word. If you have specific set of shading colors you use, I could modify some existing code I have to apply a character style to every instance. But I'd need a function to determine any possible shading color and wasn't able to find one.