I'm running Word 2008 on a 2010 13 inch Macbook Pro. I'm not having any bugs with it, but I can't figure out how to format the table the way I want it, and the only table help I can google is for Windows. Any help would be appreciated.
What I have is a table where each row counts as one day. Due to the way I need to present the information in it, I'd like to have every two rows shaded. This means two rows shaded, two rows not shaded, two rows shaded, two rows not shaded, etc. I'm aware of the "Table Autoformat" function, but I can't find an option that lets me do this in AutoFormat except for one. The one option that there is shades the table using tiny dots that aren't very visible when I print. I'd like a stronger shade, but I can't figure out how to alter that without manually shading every two rows myself (which is inconvenient considering the table is about 7 or 8 pages long). I've tried going to the formatting palette and looking at the styles and fiddling with them while I have the table selected, but literally any change I make in that window has 0 effect on the table. (I do see styles there that are specifically for the table, but they seem to have little to no bearing on it when I fiddle with them). Edit: I just tried doing Table AutoFormat to look at the styles again, and now they've vanished from the Styles list. So now I'm just confused.
Edit #2: I figured it out myself. Sorry for the spam! For those who are curious: I went to Styles under the formatting palette, selected "All Styles," found a Table AutoFormat setting I liked that only had one row in each "band" of shading, hit "modify," selected "Stripes," and selected 2 in a band. Then I highlighted the table and clicked the now-changed format. I don't know if there was an easier way to do that, but it worked for me.
What I have is a table where each row counts as one day. Due to the way I need to present the information in it, I'd like to have every two rows shaded. This means two rows shaded, two rows not shaded, two rows shaded, two rows not shaded, etc. I'm aware of the "Table Autoformat" function, but I can't find an option that lets me do this in AutoFormat except for one. The one option that there is shades the table using tiny dots that aren't very visible when I print. I'd like a stronger shade, but I can't figure out how to alter that without manually shading every two rows myself (which is inconvenient considering the table is about 7 or 8 pages long). I've tried going to the formatting palette and looking at the styles and fiddling with them while I have the table selected, but literally any change I make in that window has 0 effect on the table. (I do see styles there that are specifically for the table, but they seem to have little to no bearing on it when I fiddle with them). Edit: I just tried doing Table AutoFormat to look at the styles again, and now they've vanished from the Styles list. So now I'm just confused.
Edit #2: I figured it out myself. Sorry for the spam! For those who are curious: I went to Styles under the formatting palette, selected "All Styles," found a Table AutoFormat setting I liked that only had one row in each "band" of shading, hit "modify," selected "Stripes," and selected 2 in a band. Then I highlighted the table and clicked the now-changed format. I don't know if there was an easier way to do that, but it worked for me.
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