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Why doesnt the fill color in table cell work, unless use menus?
hi. this is driving me crazy and slowing me down....
nothing happens when i select the cell/row and click the bucket. the bucket is available, but all the colours are muted out. I can fill if i go to the menu, format/borders and shading/change to cell and select the color there. thanks for your help |
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Why doesnt the fill color in table cell work, unless use menus?
kelly wrote:
hi. this is driving me crazy and slowing me down.... nothing happens when i select the cell/row and click the bucket. the bucket is available, but all the colours are muted out. I can fill if i go to the menu, format/borders and shading/change to cell and select the color there. thanks for your help The bucket (Fill button) works only with drawing objects, made with the tools on the Drawing toolbar. Although it may not be obvious, a text box from the Insert Text Box menu item is also a drawing object. But tables are not drawing objects, so the Fill tool doesn't work with them. As you found, the shading tools in Format Borders & Shading do work in tables, as well as in regular text. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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Why doesnt the fill color in table cell work, unless use menus?
To further clarify, if you have the Tables and Borders toolbar displayed,
the Shading Color and Border Color buttons have the same icons as the Fill Color and Line Color buttons on the Drawing toolbar, but they are assigned to different (albeit similar) functions. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... kelly wrote: hi. this is driving me crazy and slowing me down.... nothing happens when i select the cell/row and click the bucket. the bucket is available, but all the colours are muted out. I can fill if i go to the menu, format/borders and shading/change to cell and select the color there. thanks for your help The bucket (Fill button) works only with drawing objects, made with the tools on the Drawing toolbar. Although it may not be obvious, a text box from the Insert Text Box menu item is also a drawing object. But tables are not drawing objects, so the Fill tool doesn't work with them. As you found, the shading tools in Format Borders & Shading do work in tables, as well as in regular text. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org |
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