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Absolutely marvelous!<br />
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Worked perfectly.<br />
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Thanks so much!
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Absolutely marvelous!

Worked perfectly.

Thanks so much!

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quick response; complete answer. total solution. Thanks much.
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quick response; complete answer. total solution. Thanks much.

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You're Welcome John! Glad I was able to help.
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You're Welcome John! Glad I was able to help.

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Word 2013. My client has documents with tables in them, sometimes more than 1 table per document. The first row of the table is formatted with a shade color (green). I want a macro to change that to a different color (Word's shading option identifies the color I want as RGB: 242, 242, 242.) Word will not allow me to click table properties when recording a macro. So I'm stuck.<br />
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I'd like to be able to load the document and execute a macro which would change all the tables at once. Or, one at a time, let the user select the cells, and execute a macro to change the shading.<br />
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How can I do this?<br />
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Thanks much.
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Word 2013. My client has documents with tables in them, sometimes more than 1 table per document. The first row of the table is formatted with a shade color (green). I want a macro to change that to a different color (Word's shading option identifies the color I want as RGB: 242, 242, 242.) Word will not allow me to click table properties when recording a macro. So I'm stuck.

I'd like to be able to load the document and execute a macro which would change all the tables at once. Or, one at a time, let the user select the cells, and execute a macro to change the shading.

How can I do this?

Thanks much.

Word 2013, VBA: How do I change the shading in the first row of a Word table?

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) enables building user-defined functions (UDFs), automating processes and accessing Windows API and other low-level functionality through dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). VBA is closely related to Visual Basic and uses the Visual Basic Runtime Library, but it can normally only run code within a host application rather than as a standalone program. It can, however, be used to control one application from another via OLE Automation. VBA is built into most Microsoft Office applications.

Microsoft Word is a commercial document editing program that is part of the Microsoft Office suite. It features numerous text-editing tools for creating richly formatted documents, along with tools for the use of macros in Word documents. Word's native file formats are denoted either by a .doc or .docx file extension. Plugins permitting the Windows versions of Word to read and write formats it does not natively support, such as the OpenDocument format (ODF) are available. Word can import and display images in common bitmap formats such as JPG and GIF. It can also be used to create and display simple line-art.

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Microsoft Office is an integrated suite of applications that includes Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Visio and InfoPath, along with a number of tools to assist in making the individual components work together. Coding within and between the projects is done in Visual Basic for Applications, known as VBA.