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Note that, if &nbsp;the number of instances of the target word is relatively low, it could be be more performant to use Find instead of examining every cell number eight.
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Hi Graham, <br />
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great, works as desired, will do some more testing and then let you know :-)<br />
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Thank you
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Hi Graham, <br />
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great, works like a charm. I wonder if you could tweak the code so that 'line 6' and 'line 7' of your code accomodates the following new requirement: <br />
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It is always the <b>very last column</b> of the tables where this termn 'blue' has been entered. <br />
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Help is much appreciated. <br />
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Thank &nbsp;you very much in advance. <br />
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Regards, Andreas
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Hi Graham, <br />
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works like a charm, thank you very much for your great help. <br />
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Regards, Andreas
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Dear Experts: <br />
<br />
I got a big word document with hundreds of tables. <br />
<br />
Dozens of the rows of these 8 column tables have an entry in the 8th column, saying 'blue'. <br />
<br />
I now would like to run a macro that performs the following action. <br />
<br />
Whenever a row in any of these tables has the entry 'blue' in the 8th column, the text entries of the whole row have to have a blue font color (RGB 0,0,255). <br />
<br />
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. <br />
<br />
I have attached a sample file for your convenience. <br />
<br />
Regards, Andreas<br />
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conditionally_color_text_VBA.docx

Dear Experts: 

I got a big word document with hundreds of tables. 

Dozens of the rows of these 8 column tables have an entry in the 8th column, saying 'blue'. 

I now would like to run a macro that performs the following action. 

Whenever a row in any of these tables has the entry 'blue' in the 8th column, the text entries of the whole row have to have a blue font color (RGB 0,0,255). 

Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. 

I have attached a sample file for your convenience. 

Regards, Andreas



Conditionally apply a font color to rows using VBA

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.

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