I'm not sure if its what you want but take a look at
http://www.lebans.com/alternatecolordetailsection.htm

Also, I came across the following it might help as well.

http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.databases.ms-access/browse_thread/thread/3319
966b4ab8cdce/af62097baf71ecd7
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Hope this helps,

Daniel P