On 05/12/2007 14:47, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
autoformat is probably the best solution, but I use a macro that uses
paragraph styles to do this in a Writer table. I can send you the
macro off list ifyou desire. email me directly, not on list if you
wnat it.
Akki Nitsch wrote:
Hi everybody!
Does anybody know a good way to realize alternating shading in tables
in OOo-Writer? It would be a nice trick to make long tables more
readable, but it's quit boring to alternate the background-colour of
every second row by hand.
Kind regards
Akki Nitsch
Possibly another way.
Create the table in Calc using the technique described below. Copy/Paste
the result into Writer. The result can either be a graphic which you
can't edit or, by clicking on the graphic, you can turn the table into
an OLE object which you can edit.
The technique for creating a Calc table with rows of alternating
background colours is given at
http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2005/03/conditional_for_3.html
It involves setting conditional formatting on all the cells in the
table depending on whether the row number is even or odd. The row number
is given by the ROW() function; its parity (even or odd) is given by the
MOD() function using 2 as the divisor. I have tried it in OO 2.2 on Win
XP. It works, as does the copy/paste into Writer. I did *not* use Paste
Special.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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