This might do what you want:
http://texblog.org/2011/09/02/coloring-every-alternate-table-row/
>From that page, define the following in your preamble, and you should get
alternating colors in all tables:
\usepackage[table]{color}
\definecolor{lightgray}{gray}{0.9}
\let\oldtabular\tabular
\let\endoldtabular\endtabular
\renewenvironment{tabular}{\rowcolors{2}{white}{lightgray}\oldtabular}{
\endoldtabular}
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 7:40 AM, uudruid74 <uudrui...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Can LyX do shaded backgrounds in tables? I want to shade every other line
> (like old mainframe computer paper) so that large tables are easier to
> read.
> Can it do this without manually formatting every line? Or would it be
> easier to use a spreadsheet app and then print to a file and import it as a
> big graphic? Some combination of printer filters should give me an EPS or
> whatever I could bring in.
>
> Comments? Ideas? Suggestions?
>
>
>
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