I often highlight text to mark up a Word doc, but I also prefer to use Dark Mode nowadays, and most of the highlight colors that Word offers look awful against the white text that Dark Mode uses. So I figured I would rewrite the macro that I use to extract all highlighted text in a doc to instead extract all text with shading, because shading offers way more color choices. But then I learned that there is no Selection.Find.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor method in VBA to iterate over all instances of shaded text in a document. Is there a different way to jump to the next instance of shaded text?

Note that instead of using shading, I considered using a character style to mark up text and extract it, but I often mark up Word docs created by other people, so my styles would have to be imported into those docs, which is a pain.



Thanks for any help anyone can offer!

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.