Are you using the paint bucket button on the Drawing toolbar (Fill Color) or
the Tables and Borders toolbar (Shading Color)? Only the latter works for
tables; the former is for drawing objects (including text boxes).

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"sonny" wrote in message
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I have an empty paint bucket; no colors when I try to fill in a cell in
Word
Doc's.