In Office 2000 and above, you can change the cell margins for a single cell
without affecting the entire table.

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"Melissa Shook via OfficeKB.com" wrote in message
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The only time I've had problems with tabel fill not meeting the grid lines
is if the text is turned vertically within the cell. If you remove all
spacing between the text and cell the shading will fill the cell to the
gridlines. Unfortunatly, it removes the spacing from the entire table and
all the text will be right next to the gridlines. I've just had to learn
to not shade cells containing vertical text.