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I am using LotusNotes to automate InDesign. So far everything I have done has worked but I am having problems with FillColor. 

I have managed to change the font style, size, justification etc but when I use the following line to amend the colour : 

myTextbox.Paragraphs.Item(1).FillColor= mydocument.Colors.item("Cyan")		 

I get a "Type Mismatch" error message. 

I have also tried the following : 

Dim allcolors As Variant 
Set allcolors = mydocument.Colors 
Msgbox Cstr(allcolors(8).Name) 

The messagebox shows the name "Cyan" but when I try to place the same data in the fillcolor I get the Type Mismatch error again, for example : 

myTextbox.Paragraphs.Item(1).FillColor= allcolors(8)	 

I wonder if anyone can help me solve this. Please!? It's driving me nuts. 

Thanks in advance 

Graeme