How do I make the shaded word text has limited length

[Emad A Ali]

I made a table of spare parts, each part has a specific Part Number.
I need to show this part No. shaded with limited length (determined number
of digits).
Thank you,
Emad

 

[Graham Mayor]

You will need a macro (or possibly a wildard replace string). How do you
determine which part of the number to format with shading? i.e. where to
start, stop and how many digits to shade?

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[Graham Mayor]

It would also help to know where in the table the numbers are located and in
which Word version.

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