Changing Button BackColor

Hi all,

I have this code:

With ActiveSheet.Shapes("CommandButton12")
    .BackColor = &H800000
End With

which I thought would change the background colour/color of the button but I receive the error: Object does not support this method. Any ideas on how I can make this work?

As always, I appreciate your time.

Hello Mordred,

If this control is on the worksheet and from the Control ToolBox the code would be...

  ActiveSheet.OLEObjects("CommandButton12").Object.BackColor = &H80000000

Thanks Leith Ross, I was at this site:
http://www.mrexcel.com/forum/showthread.php?t=341450and it, among a couple of other sites said it was not possible to program the background color of buttons. It suggested to create rectangles, which I was going to do but this will save me a lot of time. Thanks so much.

You can't for buttons from the Forms toolbar.

ActiveX controls are more flexible at the expense of breaking occasionally.