>I know, it's not that old, but I need some tip about this cause it's a >pity to leave out of a document-tutorial the colorful column.
I though you made it work by removing the apostrophes? :) This workes for me: \usepackage{colortbl} \definecolor{111}{rgb}{0.9,0,0.3} \definecolor{112}{rgb}{1,0,0} \definecolor{121}{rgb}{0.8,0.3,0.9} \definecolor{122}{rgb}{0.8,0,0} \definecolor{123}{rgb}{0.9,0.8,0.8} \begin{tabular}{ccc} \cellcolor{112}112 & \cellcolor{111}111 & \cellcolor{121}121\tabularnewline \cellcolor{123}123 & \cellcolor{122}122 & \cellcolor{111}111\tabularnewline \end{tabular} Ingar