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Another technical question for technowizards....

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:10

I have created a table in Word to insert my xmas/bday presents in (buying not receiving ). However there are some people who feature on my annual list for whom I don't buy one or the other (eg. I may buy Karen a bday present but not xmas). Now anal as this is I need to fill her xmas cell with colour and have tried using borders & shading, fill, etc but it only fills the extreme edges of the cell. ANy ideas?

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nutcracker · 27/10/2004 19:12

Blimey sounds complicated, i haven't a clue sorry.

linniewith2 · 27/10/2004 19:22

should be click on the square - format - shading - pattern block fill - Just tried it and it fills whole square............have you tried viewing it in print preview once you applied the shading/ pattern

Twiglett · 27/10/2004 19:22

i used to know this .. let me have a look at word again (which version do you have?)

chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:22

Hello Jampot,
I am a serial lurker and posted just a few times as I felt a little unwelcome but as I couldn't keep away, continued to lurk!
Do you have Excel? If you do your list in Excel then you could sort them in order of occasions. Hope this helps.

OxyMoron · 27/10/2004 19:23

Don't know about word as i never use it (because it never does what I want...) but if you make a table in excel you can fill cells by right-clicking on then, going to 'format cells' then the 'patterns' tab.

hth

Twiglett · 27/10/2004 19:24

cross-posted .. don't need to now

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:24

linniewith2 - ive just tried again and again and it only fills the very edges (say 1 character width) on each side of the cell.

Twiglett - i have word 2000 i think or maybe 98 - my comp is 2 years old and runs windows xp

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:25

hello chocbox - please dont be a lurker be a poster

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chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:27

Thank you Jampot. I've got it. You click on Format and then borders and shading. Then click on the shading tab and choose your colour

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:27

thats what ive been doing - but it only shades the edges - i will have to cancel christmas at this rate

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chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:29

Does it shade the edges or does it change the line colour?

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:30

it shades the edges

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chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:33

Did you highlight the cell first?

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:35

yes - ive just tried it on a colum and it fills the whole of the top cell and the bottom and then the outer edges of all the ones in between

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chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:38

Sorry - I'm obviously no technowizard!

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jampot · 27/10/2004 19:40

im sure you are chocbox - its really a PITA

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chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:41

PITA??? Pardon my ignorance!

chocbox · 27/10/2004 19:42

Just got it .... I'm a bit slow tonight

linniewith2 · 27/10/2004 20:20

so you have works if you are running xp ? try spreadsheets in there ...........did you try print preview and did it look the same in there

KatieMac · 27/10/2004 20:36

In Word 97 I highlight the box RH click and go to borders & Shading.
Go to Shading and pick colour
Then on the same box go to pattens and choose solid
Dont know if that will help

SofiaAmes · 27/10/2004 21:16

Two things to try...

  1. Have you made sure that you have "unhighlighted" the cell. That can affect what color you are seeing in the cell.

  2. Is it possible that there is some text in the cell that is formatted in a different color and fill?

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