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custom shading for tables in Word
I made some custom colors for backround shading in tables, but I have to
manually enter the RGB values each time I want to use one. Is there no option to save them for quick retrieval? |
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custom shading for tables in Word
You can save custom font color in a character style, custom paragraph
shading in a paragraph style. The only way (that I know of) to save custom cell shading is in a table style, and if you're wanting to apply it to only selected cells, this may not be practical. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mango" wrote in message ... I made some custom colors for backround shading in tables, but I have to manually enter the RGB values each time I want to use one. Is there no option to save them for quick retrieval? |
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Hi ?B?TWFuZ28=?=,
I made some custom colors for backround shading in tables, but I have to manually enter the RGB values each time I want to use one. Is there no option to save them for quick retrieval? Short of recording making the settings in a macro, no. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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custom shading for tables in Word
Thank you both for your input. I found that within the same table you can
apply custom colors to a cell by first clicking on a cell that already contains the color, (of course this means the color will have to have been manually created in the file already). Then open the Tables and Borders menu and click on the drop down arrow on the Shading Color icon, then More Fill Colors..., which if all goes well, opens up the Colors pane with the Custom tab pre-selected and your custom color pre-loaded at the lower right. Click OK and you'll notice the little bar of color on the Shading Color icon is now your custom color. Now you can click in a cell or row, or whatever, then click on the Shading Color icon( the icon, not the arrow) and your color is applied to that cell, row, etc. Sometimes, however, when you select a cell containing the color you want, clicking More Fill Colors...doesn't take you to the Custom tab pane with the color pre-loaded, but the Standard tab pane with nothing pre-loaded. I don't know why this happens. The above method may seem tedious, but it's better than manually entering RGB values from a list. All the same you should probably save lists of custom colors in a file within the same folder as your tables. As mentioned before this method only works to move existing custom color around in a table. The colors have to be created manually in a new table or exported in by copying a file aleady containing the colors. It would be nice if we could save these colors to a user definable pallete for each file, as the standard palette may be fine for font, but is limited when using shading. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFuZ28=?=, I made some custom colors for backround shading in tables, but I have to manually enter the RGB values each time I want to use one. Is there no option to save them for quick retrieval? Short of recording making the settings in a macro, no. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Two even easier methods:
1. If you have just filled a cell with a color (it is your last action), you can use F4 to fill another cell with the same color. 2. On the Tables and Borders toolbar, the Fill Color button will reflect the last-used color. I had hoped that copying/pasting format using Ctrl+Shift+C/Ctrl+Shift+V would work, but apparently not for shading. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Mango" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your input. I found that within the same table you can apply custom colors to a cell by first clicking on a cell that already contains the color, (of course this means the color will have to have been manually created in the file already). Then open the Tables and Borders menu and click on the drop down arrow on the Shading Color icon, then More Fill Colors..., which if all goes well, opens up the Colors pane with the Custom tab pre-selected and your custom color pre-loaded at the lower right. Click OK and you'll notice the little bar of color on the Shading Color icon is now your custom color. Now you can click in a cell or row, or whatever, then click on the Shading Color icon( the icon, not the arrow) and your color is applied to that cell, row, etc. Sometimes, however, when you select a cell containing the color you want, clicking More Fill Colors...doesn't take you to the Custom tab pane with the color pre-loaded, but the Standard tab pane with nothing pre-loaded. I don't know why this happens. The above method may seem tedious, but it's better than manually entering RGB values from a list. All the same you should probably save lists of custom colors in a file within the same folder as your tables. As mentioned before this method only works to move existing custom color around in a table. The colors have to be created manually in a new table or exported in by copying a file aleady containing the colors. It would be nice if we could save these colors to a user definable pallete for each file, as the standard palette may be fine for font, but is limited when using shading. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWFuZ28=?=, I made some custom colors for backround shading in tables, but I have to manually enter the RGB values each time I want to use one. Is there no option to save them for quick retrieval? Short of recording making the settings in a macro, no. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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