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Trish

Hi, I wish to shade random cells. I successfuly use the format paintbrush
to copy the format of headings etc, but the shading never copies across. Is
there a simple secret to this? Many thanks.
 
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Tom Conrad

If a table element, cell, row col is cut/copied, insert, pasted or moved then
the border and shading elements follow the action.

If you are creating a table with structured shading, e.g. every other row,
or every other col, then it is easy to create this effect. create the 1st
row, then insert new rows as many times as needed.

You state that you want to shade random cells
Shade the first cell, move to your next cell, press F4 Repeat the last
action. This should shade the target cell <continue until done, or exhausted>
 
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Trish

Thanks Tom - your advice was helpful to me in general terms, but has not
resolved my immediate problem. I already had the table, with just some
borders and no shading. I then decided to shade some of the heading cells,
and used 5%. I then selected that cell, used the format paintbrush and
tried to copy the formatting to other random heading cells - the actual
format copies okay, but the shading does not follow. I have had this
dilemma for some time (a couple of years at least) but have always needed to
get the document out quickly, so have done it manually. I felt sure there
had to be another way. Any other suggestions? Many thanks.
 
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