Brian Barker wrote:
At 16:52 07/01/2010 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
I have a grey background in my table. I can't see why it is there.
Maybe someone can explain how to get rid of it.
It appears that table backgrounds can be set for cells, rows, or
entire tables. Here, the background is for the table. Go to Table |
Table Properties... | Background (or right-click | Table... |
Background). If for "For" you select Cell or Row, you will see No
Fill selected, but if you select Table for "For", you will see that
the background colour for the entire table is "Gray 20%". Select No
Fill there (as you have now discovered).
On 07/01/10 17:28 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
The background for the table is set to blue/grey even though it says
"No Fill". To overcome it:
* Select the table
* Menu: Table > Table Properties > Background
* in the colour palette, click the white box (row 2, col 6)
* click OK
* Done
HTH
This sets the background to white, which isn't exactly the same as
"No fill". But if on that same dialog, you select the Table option of
the "For" field, and then click on No fill, the shading goes away. It
is peculiar, though -- my first attempt was to do the same thing you
did, then click on No fill -- and the shading came back!
This is understandable. If you select the whole table and then change
the background for Cell or Row to White, this will override the
existing table background. If you the cancel this by setting the same
parameter to No Fill, the table background colour will again show
through.
At 21:04 07/01/2010 -0500, James Lockie wrote:
Is that considered a bug?
I don't think so. It makes sense to me that cell formatting overrides
row formatting, which in turn overrides table formatting. It does
mean that if you format an entire row using cell formatting or an
entire table using cell or row formatting, the current row or table
formatting will be hidden.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Thanks for providing a logical explanation for this behavior -- it also
explains why the scope for the For field does not include both row and
column, which was puzzling me. After all, there's no clear hierarchy
between rows and columns.
I still have no clue, though, as to why a cell should potentially have
three different background colors! How could this be useful? It would
seem straightforward just to set your selections and then a single color
(or no-fill transparency, to accommodate the use of colored or
watermarked page backgrounds). If this layering is actually useful, it
would be nice if it defaulted to be compatible with the current
selection area -- that is, to Table if the whole table is selected, for
example.
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