Has anyone noticed that trying to set the Page Color from within a macro does not appear to work. After the macro runs the page color remains unchanged, but if I go to the Page Color setting window, all the values I specified are there. It's just that Word 2010 doesn't do anyrthing with them.

Any suggestion would be most appreciated.

Karen

I just tried a simple one, using the recorder and one of the default colors. Worked like a charm. Is yours part of a longer macro, in which something else might be amiss?

Thanks very much for the reply.

Yes, the page color was part of a longer macro, but when I read your reply I tried creating a macro to just change the page color ... and it failed. Here is the macro;

ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Visible = msoTrue
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 130)
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Solid

Could you please post what your test macro contains?

Karen

Sub Color()
'
' Color Macro
'
'
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.ForeColor.ObjectThe meColor = _
wdThemeColorAccent1
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.ForeColor.TintAndSh ade = 0#
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Visible = msoTrue
ActiveDocument.Background.Fill.Solid
End Sub