Fill options available for shapes should be available for tables

[leafeater]

The fill options available for shapes and other objects in Office should also
be available for tables and cells. This would allow the creation of more
appealing tables without having to mess around in the drawing canvas.
Ideally, gradient fills would have the options to be applied to the table as
a whole or to an individual cell.

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[Beth Melton]

Good Suggestion.

PowerPoint does have the same Fill Effects formats for tables and
other objects but Word and Excel do not.

Can you verify what you mean by Gradient effects in cells or the
entire table? Do you mean include an additional options when selecting
a Shading Style? I suspect you mean options such as "Apply to
individual cell(s)" and "Apply to entire selection". When filling
individual cells the shading style repeats for each cell as it does
now. The "Entire selection" option, not currently available, would
fill the shading style across the cell selection.

Ideally, all of the Office applications could stand some uniformity
when it comes to formatting options for all objects. For example only
in Excel can you can specify an image/object be visible on the screen
but not printed.

Another example is both PowerPoint and Excel allow text rotation in
drawing objects. In Word, aside from using WordArt, one can only
rotate text in a table and it is limited to 90°. Yet you can not
rotate text in tables in PowerPoint.

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