This is frustrating me…usually I can figure out Word on my own or by using Microsoft’s horrendously-badly-thought-out help index.
I have a table. Some cells are filled with a color that’s shaded – it’s about a 50% shading of some version of green.
How do I fill ANOTHER table cell with EXACTLY that shade?
I can shade the cells with the regular paragraph menu shading, or the table/design/shading function, or the table/design/draw borders/shading command all equally well.
However, once I have done so, the information does not appear to be retained where I can see it – I reopen those menus in the shaded cell I am trying to match and the fill state is “clear”, and I can change it to anything I want, but not apparently see what settings I used to GET to that shade.
The Format Painter will not paint shading.
How can I duplicate a shade exactly, or see the extant settings in a previously-shaded cell, and manually put them into a new cell?
-Click in the table.
-On the “Design” tab under “Table Tools” in the ribbon, click the “Shading” dropdown.
-In the dropdown, select “More colors…”
-In the “Colors” dialog, click the “Custom” tab, look at the color model and related values.
Once you have the color settings, go to the Page Layout tab, Themes section. You can add custom colors to the themes here and they will be saved and available for reuse wherever you want.
I have a different version, but does highlighting the entire cell (often you need to click in some magical and itty bitty area at the corner to actually select the entire cell and not just its contents), then copy then ‘paste special’ give you a useful option?
I tried that. Going from memory, the color setting is “0” or “clear”. Despite the fact that there’s color. I can ADD shading and correctly see the color I just added, but once I exit the document and re-load it, this settiung is zeroed out.