Word macro for inserting coloured text

Hi All

I'm trying to adjust a series of macros I have created for coding my PhD data. I am using XML style tags to mark certain details in transcribed conversations. I'm doing this by highlighting the text I need to tag and clicking a button, tagging the text. eg. "I am Pete playing a wizard", highlight pete and click, creating "I am <proper_name> Pete </proper_name> playing a wizard". I would like to make the tags themselves insert coloured, without changing the colour of the highlighted text. I would like the different tag types to be separate colours, so I can't just find all the text inside <> and change it. I have tagged strings that would looking like:

"<personal_deixis><Ref_self><occ_self>I</occ_self></ref_self></personal_deixis> am <proper_name><Ref_self><occ_self>Pete</occ_self></ref_self></proper_name>, <personal_deixis><Ref_player><occ_self>NULL</occ_self></ref_player></personal_deixis> < Definite_description><Ref_charself><occ_player>a wizard</occ_player></ref_charself></definite_description>" (("I am Pete playing a wizard"))

Kind of hard to analyse that way!

The code I have so far is in two parts. One block of:

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and several versions of:

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I've only gotten the colour to work by changing the highlighted colour, not the tags (this is the first programming I've done in about 12 years!).

Thank you in advance for the help!

Hi sean,

Rather than trying to colour the tags as they're inserted, I'd suggest inserting them all & colouring them later. With that approach you could use a macro like:

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The above gives 11 colour options (I assumed you wouldn't want white, automatic, black or grey) on a rotating basis. Simply change the order of the expressions in the StrWords variable to alter which expressions get what colours.

Hi sean,

That, too, is easily accomodated. For example, the following applies one of three colours to the nominated tags:

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FWIW, the code uses Find/Replace just as one might do manually and it would be just as easy to use highlighting as font colouring.