hi ben,

The best you can do with field coding is to approximate what you're after. For example, you could use field coding like:
{IF{MERGEFIELD Colour}= "Blue" "Water"}
{IF{MERGEFIELD Colour}= "Red" "Fire"}
{IF{MERGEFIELD Colour}= "Green" "Grass"}
and colour/highlight the 'Water', 'Fire' and 'Grass' strings with the colour/highlight you want. This will colour/highlight those
text strings, but nothing more. However, these strings can also span multiple paragraphs (not just a single word as I have used) and
could include tables with the cell shading you're after.

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Cheers
macropod
[Microsoft MVP - Word]


"ben_johnson1991" wrote in message ...
I'm using a mail merge from Excel. I dont think this is possible but its
worth a try.
I want colours that are listened in excel to be able to represent a colour
of a text box in word.

example.
The title could be "Tree" and in the colour associated in the excel sheet
would be "Green", so in word when the mail merge is run to put "Tree" into a
text box and i would like somehow for word to recognise "green" and then make
that text box background colour green.

Any help would be great, even if its that it's not possible.
Thanks