How to reliably change the fill colour of a rectangle using an animation timeline

[ajarmstron]

Hi - I have gone through the relevant sub-procedures and declared all shape effects inside the sub-procedure. I have also Set the slides, shapes and effects as nothing.

The good news is that the fill affect now works at all times! However, the bad news is that a new problem has arisen in that a shape which has used the described fill animation does not change its colour later on when using the command line MyDocument2.Shapes("AnswerRectangle" & TileAnswer(ActiveRectangle2)).Fill.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(255, 0, 0). I believe the command is processed as I have evidence that lines below this command are processed. Also when the slide show is exited the shape concerned has changed colour! So for some reason the outcome of the .Shape command is not being shown on the PowerPoint Slide Show.

I would be grateful for any suggestions as to what I could try.