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Shading a single column within a table

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Nov 14, 2016 Nov 14, 2016

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I am having trouble shading a single column within a three (3) column table.  I'd like to shade the middle column to provide a visual separator between the columns with entries. Can someone please advise on this seemingly simple task?

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Community Expert , Nov 14, 2016 Nov 14, 2016

Table Designer shades using a repeating pattern. If all your tables look exactly like the one shown, you could shade by Body Columns and set the 1st 1 to None, Next 1 to the desired shading. The repeating pattern for a 3 column table would be none, shade, none. This would not work for four or more columns—in that case you would need to use Custom Ruling and Shading.

  1. Select the Column
  2. Table > Format > Custom Ruling and Shading
  3. Disable the checkmarks for all ruling properties
  4. Enable the checkmark for
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Table Designer shades using a repeating pattern. If all your tables look exactly like the one shown, you could shade by Body Columns and set the 1st 1 to None, Next 1 to the desired shading. The repeating pattern for a 3 column table would be none, shade, none. This would not work for four or more columns—in that case you would need to use Custom Ruling and Shading.

  1. Select the Column
  2. Table > Format > Custom Ruling and Shading
  3. Disable the checkmarks for all ruling properties
  4. Enable the checkmark for shading and set the shading as desired.
  5. Click Apply

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Nov 15, 2016 Nov 15, 2016

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Thank you very much.  this forum has been very useful to me so far.

regards,

matt.bardelli

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Glad we can help, Matt.

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