Vista - Highlighting a selection in word document

I'm trying to write some code that highlights a selection in a word
document. The code gets the correct selection and I'm able to do
things like set the font type and make the font bold of the correct
selection. However, I have also been asked to highlight the selection
in yellow. The code I'm using is:

With objSelection.Font
.Bold = True
.Italic = False
.Name = "Arial"
End With

objSelection.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow

In this code, the with block executes perfectly, but I can't get the
highlighting part to work. Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks.

You need to find the value of wdYellow and use that, or define wdYellow as a
constant.
Only Word knows what wdYellow is - to your script it's just an undefined
variable.

Tim

<jbrusoe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:91ff03ea-e178-46ef-a825-d4d966bbf4c2@xxxxxx

Thanks for the reply. However, I thought wdYellow was predefined. I
got that from this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ffice.10).aspx

Also, when I change the font color, I was using something like .Color
= RGB(255,255,0). I know that works. When I tried that color value
(the RGB notation) with HighlightColorIndex, nothing happens. So I
was wondering if this is even the correct property to be using?

Thanks again.

On Nov 12, 6:53*pm, "Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com>
wrote:

wdYellow *is* pre-defined, but only if you're prgramming in Word VBA or have
added a reference to the Word object library.
Since you're posting in the vbscript group I'm assuming you're using
vbscript.

ColorIndex usually refers to one of a set of predefined colors, such as
those found on the Excel 56(?) color pallette.
Have you tried just .Color (though that isn't in the list of properties at
your MS URL) ?

Tim


<jbrusoe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:60460a11-be35-4ea8-9f68-4e08d3950280@xxxxxx
Thanks for the reply. However, I thought wdYellow was predefined. I
got that from this article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ffice.10).aspx

Also, when I change the font color, I was using something like .Color
= RGB(255,255,0). I know that works. When I tried that color value
(the RGB notation) with HighlightColorIndex, nothing happens. So I
was wondering if this is even the correct property to be using?

Thanks again.

On Nov 12, 6:53 pm, "Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com>
wrote:

Thanks again for the reply and that clarifies a lot. You are correct
that I'm using vbscript to try and automate some settings in word.
However, I'm still confused about a few things.

1. When I wrote a macro and selected the highlight option and then
looked at the code, the code for the macro had the HighlightColorIndex
set. If I choose that option for the selection I want, why wouldn't
the RGB(255,255,0) setting work? I can use this same format to change
the font color and assumed it would work for the highlighting as well.

2. The code I'm currently using is:
With objSelection.Font
.Bold = True
.Italic = False
.Name = "Arial"
.Color = RGB(255,0,0)
End With
objSelection.HighlightColorIndex.Color = RGB(255,255,0)

In this code, the with block code is executed perfectly, but the
HighlighColorIndex doesn't make any changes. I've tried this with and
without the .Color at the end. Unfortunately, for this app, that is
probably the most important setting that is needed. Any other
suggestions to have a rectangular shape highlighted yellow around the
selected words?

Thanks again.

On Nov 13, 1:41*am, "Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com>
wrote:

1. A property like ".xxxColorIndex" typically is not the same as
".xxxColor" (which usually is OK with a RGB value).
Look at the object browser in the Word VBE (F2) to see why: the expected
parameter for HighlightColorIndex is "Enum WdColorIndex" - ie. one of a set
of pre-defined values represented by constants such as wdYellow, whose
actual *value* is 7. RGB() returns a Long, so RGB(255,255,0) is 65535.
And you can't just tag on .Color behind .HighlightColorIndex.

2. So, don't do this:
objSelection.HighlightColorIndex.Color = RGB(255,255,0)

Do this:
objSelection.HighlightColorIndex = 7


Tim


"Jeff" <jbrusoe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4300b92c-d3e1-47a5-a12d-517d0f139112@xxxxxx
Thanks again for the reply and that clarifies a lot. You are correct
that I'm using vbscript to try and automate some settings in word.
However, I'm still confused about a few things.

1. When I wrote a macro and selected the highlight option and then
looked at the code, the code for the macro had the HighlightColorIndex
set. If I choose that option for the selection I want, why wouldn't
the RGB(255,255,0) setting work? I can use this same format to change
the font color and assumed it would work for the highlighting as well.

I'm more familiar with

2. The code I'm currently using is:
With objSelection.Font
.Bold = True
.Italic = False
.Name = "Arial"
.Color = RGB(255,0,0)
End With
objSelection.HighlightColorIndex.Color = RGB(255,255,0)

In this code, the with block code is executed perfectly, but the
HighlighColorIndex doesn't make any changes. I've tried this with and
without the .Color at the end. Unfortunately, for this app, that is
probably the most important setting that is needed. Any other
suggestions to have a rectangular shape highlighted yellow around the
selected words?

Thanks again.

On Nov 13, 1:41 am, "Tim Williams" <timjwilliams at gmail dot com>
wrote: