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Fill Effects
Is there a way to add fill effects to a table cell so that it goes in a
gradient from dark to light. (the way you can create gradients using the drawing tool) Thanks |
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Hi Ratio,
You can do it in Word indirectly. Here are a few variations. 1. To do a whole table you can first create a Textbox (max size is one full page), then create your table inside of the textbox and use the Fill effects on the textbox. 2. For individual cells or rows you can draw an autoshape the size of the cell or row in your table (the table row cannot be set to allow it to break across a page boundary in table properties) and then set the order to have the autoshape 'behind text' 3. You can create a small gradient graphic and use Insert=Picture=From File choose Link or insert the graphic then stretch it to fill the cell 4. You can put a textbox in a table cell and format it as 'inline with text' (in Word 2003). 5. You can create the basic table in Powerpoint then Edit=Paste Special the table into Word as a MS Office Drawing Object (it comes in as an autoshape frame with a collection of grouped text boxes forming the table cells). Word *should* be able to use CSS style sheets or HTML tables that get a gradient fill from their ability to tile a small (1K) graphic, but when you pull in pages that do that Word tends to lose that formatting when it converts an HTML table to its Word table. ======== "ratio" wrote in message ... Is there a way to add fill effects to a table cell so that it goes in a gradient from dark to light. (the way you can create gradients using the drawing tool) Thanks -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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