Word 2007 Content Control tag color

[Harry Sauers]

When programmatically creating content controls in Word 2007 (Developer menu

Controls) , is it possible to control/change the color of the tag that is

displayed when the document is in design mode (Developer > Controls > Design
Mode)? By default, these tags are a light-blue and I have also seen them
become pink when these controls are mapped to Custom XML data. I would like
to change the coolor of these tags based on particular conditions. I would
just like to know if this is at all possible using VBA (or something else)
and if so, how it can be done.

Thanks,
Harry Sauers

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Harry,

Nice to see you here

When programmatically creating content controls in Word 2007 (Developer menu
displayed when the document is in design mode (Developer > Controls > Design
Mode)? By default, these tags are a light-blue and I have also seen them
become pink when these controls are mapped to Custom XML data. I would like
to change the coolor of these tags based on particular conditions. I would
just like to know if this is at all possible using VBA (or something else)
and if so, how it can be done.

I don't think there's any way you can control the colors of these tags
directly. The "pink" was used in Word 2003 when a schema was attached to a
document, and it looks like they've continued that practice in 2007 for mapped
Content Controls. Light-blue seems to indicate that no custom schema is
involved.

I do know that the XML Toolbox for Word 2003 provided a tool to change the tag
color. Something in the Registry. But the change applies to ALL tags in the
document. No way to individually affect tags. Interesting thought, though

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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