[Stefan Blom]

The full range of settings available for drawing objects cannot be
applied to tables; that's correct. Your options are limited to those
available on the Shading tab of the Format | Borders and Shading
dialog box. For example, you can't define a gradient.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"kippers" wrote in message
...
Is it possible to add a fill effect in Word 2003 (e.g. diagonal
shading
styles) to shades added to particular cells in a word table. I can
do this
for a drawing object but I don't appear to have the option when I go
to
format-borders & shading (only got the 'style' option)

Cheers