[Sharon_of_WV]

Does anyone know how to copy the shading from an Excel spreadsheet into a
Word table? The text copies, but not the color-coding that I have used in
the spreadsheet.

Thanks in advance!
Sharon

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi ?B?U2hhcm9uX29mX1dW?=,

Does anyone know how to copy the shading from an Excel spreadsheet into a
Word table? The text copies, but not the color-coding that I have used in
the spreadsheet.

Which version of Office do you have? How did you apply the shading to the
cells you're copying? What commands are you using to copy in Excel and insert
the table into Word?

Using Office 2003, the "shading" button on Excel's toolbar, and "plain
vanilla" copy/paste, the shading comes across.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Sharon_of_WV]

Actually I guess I worded the question wrong (or didn't provide enough
information). I was cutting & pasting from Excel into an EXISTING table in
word. If I past from Excel directly into word (in which a new table is
formed in Word) the shading copies. It does not copy when pasting into an
existing table. Is there any way to get around that? I am using Office 2003.

Thanks for your help and I apologize for having to be more specific now when
I should have been initially.

Sharon

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi ?B?U2hhcm9uX29mX1dW?=,

Does anyone know how to copy the shading from an Excel spreadsheet into a
Word table? The text copies, but not the color-coding that I have used in
the spreadsheet.

Which version of Office do you have? How did you apply the shading to the
cells you're copying? What commands are you using to copy in Excel and insert
the table into Word?

Using Office 2003, the "shading" button on Excel's toolbar, and "plain
vanilla" copy/paste, the shading comes across.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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 :-)

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi ?B?U2hhcm9uX29mX1dW?=,

Actually I guess I worded the question wrong (or didn't provide enough
information). I was cutting & pasting from Excel into an EXISTING table in
word. If I past from Excel directly into word (in which a new table is
formed in Word) the shading copies. It does not copy when pasting into an
existing table. Is there any way to get around that? I am using Office 2003.

Here, it does... The cursor is in a cell, in an existing table; I paste; the
shading is there.

When you paste, if all the options are activated, the "Paste Options" button
should show up at the bottom right of what you just pasted. Does choosing any of
the options give you a different result?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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