I like to set the color of a font in a paragraph style to an accentcolor (from the document theme).



On a range I can use:
Selection.Font.Fill.ForeColor.ObjectThemeColor =wdThemeColorAccent2

however if I try to apply the color to a font in a style, I get an error 4680 (That property is not supported for this object)
ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleHeading1).Font.Fill.F oreColor.ObjectThemeColor = wdThemeColorAccent2

I can set the color if I use
ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleHeading1).Font.Color = ActiveDocument.DocumentTheme.ThemeColorScheme(msoT hemeAccent2)
however it doesn't point to the position in the theme but uses it's RGB. That's not what I want.
(Note that the .Color property of a font still works)

Does anybody know how to archieve this?
I was also wondering why I need the msoThemeAccent enum instead of the wdThemeColorAccent. I was under the impression that for Word objects I need the wdThemeColorAccent and for Office objects the msoThemeColor?

Try this instead

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thanks for your response.

This changes only the color. This is not what I want to archieve.
I want to set the color to the relative position in the palet, not to a fixed value, so that when the theme is changed, the color in the style changes as well.

That number is for Accent2, not a fixed rgb value. Give it a try and I believe it will work on your machine the same as it does on mine

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

Thank you so much!
You're right. That seems to do the trick.

Can you tell me what this number is? Is it a value for a constant? Any place I can find the other numbers for the various accent colors?

The Word object model does not support setting the font color of a style to a theme color. The code below will generate an error if you try it.

The negative RGB value isn't a constant but can be determined using the following code, where a theme color has already been applied to the style

If you work through each of the colors you can create your own constants. Watch out for tints and shades though!

If you're feeling brave, there is an article that explains theme colors in depth: Word Articles: Colours in 2007

Thank you!!!
This is very helpful and will save me a lot of problems.

Have a very nice day and thank you both for helping me out.