As an extension to being able to replace existing text strings with alternate text string and wingdings in a Word document, I want to set:
1. the background cell colour when the existing string is in a table;
2. the background paragraph cell colour when the existing string is not in a table.
I can find out whether or not the existing text string is in a cell using 
$selection->Find->ClearFormatting;
$selection->Find->{Text} = $existing_string;
$find_sb_item = $selection->Find->Execute;
$intable_res = 0;
if($find_sb_item == 1) {
    $intable_res = $selection->Information(wdWithInTable);
}

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with $intable being 1 with the selection point is in the table and 0 when not.
I found in http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/resources/officetips/apr05/tips0407.mspx the following code for VBA
Const wdColorWhite = 16777215
Const wdColorGray10 = 15132390
Const wdColorYellow = 65535

Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objWord.Visible = True
Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add()
Set objSelection = objWord.Selection

i = 1

objSelection.ParagraphFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorG
+ray10
objSelection.TypeText "This is the first paragraph."
objSelection.TypeParagraph()

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I always struggle going from VBA to Perl, however, I thought that the following may work.
$wdColorGray10 = 15132390;
$selection->ParagraphFormat->Shading ({BackgroundPatternColor => $wdCo
+lorGray10});

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Sadly nothing happened to either the cell or paragraph background colour. Does any Monk know how to do what I want?</code>

In reply to Adding colour to table cells in Word by merrymonk

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