Change Text Colour if CheckBox is marked

mj_sklarWRK · #3 02-14-2024, 11:01 AM

Hi Andrew,

I've made the changes to the tags that you suggested and the code you provided works perfectly! Thank you.

Edit: After a little bit more trial-and-error, I managed to write a simple FOR loop that greys out a section, so help with the question below is no longer needed!

I would also like the whole table to change colours if the top checkbox is checked (i.e., "check this box if this section does not apply").

I believe to do that I would need to move that checkbox to a new row at the top of the table (instead of being text outside the table as it currently is), so I have done that and given that checkbox a unique tag called 'MasterNA'.

I've tried adapting the code you provided to grey out the whole table based on this 'MasterNA' checkbox. I haven't figured out how to do that yet, but I have figured out a couple of dozens ways to not do that 😅

Is it possible to adapt this code to change the colour of the whole table based on the 'MasterNA' checkbox? Or would I need to put in something more complicated, like maybe a FOR loop that would cycle through each row in the table?

Here is the code I used to get a "master" checkbox to grey out a table. The attached file contains the same code but with additional inline comments.

Code:

Private Sub Document_ContentControlOnExit(ByVal CCtrl As ContentControl, Cancel As Boolean)
  Dim lngColour As Long, i As Long, aCC As ContentControl

  If CCtrl.Type = wdContentControlCheckBox Then     'section 1 - MASTER checkbox disables or re-enables a section
    Select Case CCtrl.Tag
        Case "MASTER"
          lngColour = wdGray50
        If CCtrl.Checked Then
          For Each aCC In CCtrl.Range.Tables(1).Range.ContentControls
             aCC.LockContents = False
             aCC.Range.Font.ColorIndex = lngColour
             aCC.Range.Font.StrikeThrough = True
             If aCC.Type = wdContentControlCheckBox Then
                If aCC.Tag <> "MASTER" Then
                aCC.Checked = False
                End If
             End If
             aCC.LockContents = True
             If aCC.Tag = "MASTER" Then
                aCC.LockContents = False
                aCC.Range.Font.StrikeThrough = False
             End If
          Next
        End If     'end second IF (If.CCtrl.Checked Then)
        If CCtrl.Checked = False Then
          For Each aCC In CCtrl.Range.Tables(1).Range.ContentControls
             aCC.LockContents = False
             aCC.Range.Font.ColorIndex = wdAuto
             aCC.Range.Font.StrikeThrough = False
             If aCC.Type = wdContentControlRichText Then
                aCC.LockContents = True
             End If
          Next
        End If    
    End Select
  End If          

  If CCtrl.Type = wdContentControlCheckBox Then        'section 2 - colour-code rows based on Compliance status Yes/No/NA
    If CCtrl.Checked Then
      For Each aCC In CCtrl.Range.Cells(1).Range.ContentControls
        If aCC.Tag <> CCtrl.Tag Then aCC.Checked = False
      Next aCC
      Select Case CCtrl.Tag
        Case "Yes"
          lngColour = wdGreen
        Case "No"
          lngColour = wdRed
        Case "NA"
          lngColour = wdDarkYellow
       ' Case "MASTER"
       '   lngColour = wdGray50
       ' Case Else
       '   lngColour = wdAuto
      End Select
      CCtrl.Range.Font.ColorIndex = lngColour
      Set aCC = CCtrl.Range.Rows(1).Range.ContentControls(1)
      aCC.LockContents = False
      aCC.Range.Font.ColorIndex = lngColour
      aCC.LockContents = True
      End If
  End If    

End Sub

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