Ok I looked in my giant VB API book and I found what you need to use: 'SetBkColor' will set the background for a brush. Here's a few links I found that do this, but I'm not sure what your doing:
http://www.listensoftware.com/hrxp/c...?contentid=581
http://www.vbapihelpline.de/ref/func...Color&Letter=s Last link is in German, but if you look at the code you should get the idea
http://www.developersdex.com/vb/mess...p13.phx.gbl%3E On this 1, ctrl+f to find ''SetBkColor"
I hope this gives you a decent idea or direction of where to go.