Re: Random letter colors?

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On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:44:16 +0200, "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>Am I missing something here - if the aim of this was as originally described
>"I am writing some Santa letters to some kids
>in a playful font and I would like to print them in color" then what's the
>point of the extra sophistication? Any of the suggestions posted would do
>the job. Macros are there to help you work, not to spend more time on them
>than the original job they replace.

Actually, I think you are missing quite a lot.

Yes, I wanted the macro to save me the trouble of editing each
individual character. But I also wanted to learn something about how
Word macros and VBA work and have a little fun writing the code.


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Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000
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