Alternating fill in table style or options won't show

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November 21, 2023
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Ok, so I know that within the table styles there is an option for alternating row color. However, it seems that I can't get alternating row colors to show. My best guess right now is that somehow the fill color in the cell styles is stopping it from showing. I saw some other similar posts to this but the solutions in those cases were for you to set the cell style fill to "(ignore)". I only see that as an option if another color is set. So I select it, and the box goes blank (at which point "(ignore)" goes away). I'm attaching a screenshot of my table and cell styles to show they're both set up to what I believe is correct, but still no alternating row pattern is appearing on the cells in the red outline box.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I am also wondering even if I get this to work what happens if the amount of rows I want to skip coloring on (headers) is variable? Sometimes there are two header rows and there could be anywhere from 3-4 potentially. I wouldn't want those to be alternating so I can't skip a set amount of rows in the options.

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Correct answer Laura26119766ldij

The only way I got this to work was to rebuild some of the styles relating to the background. I think I just had too many things trying to override it.

Mike Witherell

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Judy, the context of the discussion above your comment is cell styles applied to columns, rows, and cells. Editing these has to be done a certain way in order to get the alternating table fill to show through. Are you having this trouble within a cell style?

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User799

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I had what appears to be the same problem. I could apply [Basic Table] style to a table, and then the alternating fill selected in my Table Styles > Fills options worked correctly. But when I used my custom table style, the alternating fill did not appear. I did have Cell Styles created and in use in my own custom table style. The way I found to fix it was to make sure all of my cell styles had the Cell Fill Color set to "(Ignore)". When it was set to "[None]", the alternating fill did not work. Note that once the Cell Fill Color is set to "(Ignore)", you will just see a plain white background in the field where the color usually is – there will be no word like "[None]" or "(Ignore)".

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peterr2662132

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This worked for me as well. Many other suggestions failed and a lot of time was wasted. Thank you.

Laura26119766ldijAuthorCorrect answer

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The only way I got this to work was to rebuild some of the styles relating to the background. I think I just had too many things trying to override it.