[John Pryor]

Is there a facility for using graduated fills in Word 2007 as there are in
Excel 2007?

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi John,

It can depend on what you're trying to use the Gradient fills on. Word 2007 only implements part of the new Office 2007 graphics
engine (Escher 2) so there's a bit of a mix between old objects and new objects as far as method.

In general many of the features are the same through the ribbon.
If, for example you use Insert=Shape then select the shape you should get to the Drawing Tools=Format ribbon tab and can use th
Shape Fill=Gradient choice in either Word or Excel 2007.

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"John Pryor" wrote in message ...
Is there a facility for using graduated fills in Word 2007 as there are in Excel 2007?
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[John Pryor]

Thanks for coming back, Bob

What I was referring to was the individual cells of a table, and comparing
them to cells on an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. It appears (to me) that there are
more options available for cell shading in Excel that there are in Word. Or
am I missing something?

John

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi John,

It can depend on what you're trying to use the Gradient fills on. Word 2007 only implements part of the new Office 2007 graphics
engine (Escher 2) so there's a bit of a mix between old objects and new objects as far as method.

In general many of the features are the same through the ribbon.
If, for example you use Insert=Shape then select the shape you should get to the Drawing Tools=Format ribbon tab and can use th
Shape Fill=Gradient choice in either Word or Excel 2007.

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"John Pryor" wrote in message ...
Is there a facility for using graduated fills in Word 2007 as there are in Excel 2007?
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi John,

You are correct that Excel 2007 supports the full graphics fill properties while Word tables do not. That's part of the full vs
partial implementation in 2007 of the new Office Graphics engine capabilities.

For an example of how close but frustrating this can be, if you have Powerpoint 2007, choose there a layout with a table, insert a
table and apply a gradient fill look there, then copy and paste the table to Word 2007 and the color scheme goes 'flat'.

There are several workarounds that may be of use to you, pretty much the same as in Word 2003.

One is to use Home=Paste=Paste Special and include a MS Office Excel object within your Word document with a link to the Excel
worksheet. That will display and print the Excel 'look' from within the Word document but it does limit the inclusion to what fits
within a single Word page.

Another is to Paste Special as a picture, if you don't need to be able to edit it.

To create the gradient fills in Word tables you usually need to use graphics or text boxes inside or behind tables/table cells and
that can tend to make management of the content of the tables a bit unwieldy.

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"John Pryor" wrote in message ...
Thanks for coming back, Bob

What I was referring to was the individual cells of a table, and comparing
them to cells on an Excel 2007 spreadsheet. It appears (to me) that there are
more options available for cell shading in Excel that there are in Word. Or
am I missing something?

John
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*