The easiest way to add shading to table cells is with the Tables and Borders
toolbar. Once you've selected the desired shading, you can just click in a
cell, then click on the paint-bucket button.

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"Susie B" Susie wrote in message
...
I have made a table with months and days for next year. I need to shade
the
days of the week that our office is closed. I have tried holding down the
Shift button to move to non-adjacent days to shade, but all of the days
in
between the ones above and the ones I'm working with get selected. Holding
down Control doesn't work either; when I select the new days, the other
days
previously shaded return to white/unshaded. Must I really do each set of
two
days separately, shading then saving, then shading then saving....very
time
consuming! There's got to be a better way. What am I missing??? Thanks in
advance for your help.