>Fabio,
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>While setting the style property of the shape to 3 will give you a themed shape... it does not match the background color of pages in a themed pageframe... which I believe was the whole point of Naomi's questoin. Please put a pageframe containing at least one page and a shape on a form, have them both themed, and run it. I think it will be quite apparent that they are not the same (themed shapes have a transparent background).
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Craig ?
If the themed shape is transparent, it have not a backcolor.
Therefore, where is the difference ?