alternating rows of no background, transparent gray

[James-330]

I want to take a table with alternating rows of no background,
transparent gray.
So it is easier to read a line.
How do I do this with Writer?

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[NoOp-4]

On 11/06/2009 07:19 AM, James wrote:
> I want to take a table with alternating rows of no background,
> transparent gray.
> So it is easier to read a line.
> How do I do this with Writer?

It's a bit of a kludge, but does work:

1. Insert|Table
2. Create the table with two more columns and rows that you wish the
table to have.
3. Select 'Autoformat' and choose the 'Turquoise' format.
4. Delete the first & last column, and the top and bottom rows.





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[Michele Zarri]

2009/11/6 James <bjlockie@...>:

> I want to take a table with alternating rows of no background, transparent
> gray.
> So it is easier to read a line.
> How do I do this with Writer?
>
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Hello James,

I do not think there is an automatic way to do that, but I recall
someone having written a macro which did just that... I am sure it is
hidden somewhere on the OOoForum but I could find the URL... :-)

One option is to create a small table (two rows, two columns, plus
column/row heading if needed), apply manually the formatting desired,
and then add this style to the auto-format styles.
Then select your table and apply the autoformat you just defined.

Not as good as the macro, but definitely going to save a lot of work.

Cheers,

Michele

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[Harold Fuchs-2]

James wrote:
> I want to take a table with alternating rows of no background,
> transparent gray.
> So it is easier to read a line.
> How do I do this with Writer?
>
One possible solution: create the table in Calc using the technique
described at
<http://www.openofficetips.com/blog/archives/2005/03/conditional_for_3.html>
and then copy/paste the block of cells into Writer.

Or see the discussion at
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=33956 which I found,
among others, using Google.

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[pitonyak]

On 11/06/2009 02:55 PM, Michele Zarri wrote:

> 2009/11/6 James<bjlockie@...>:
>    
>> I want to take a table with alternating rows of no background, transparent
>> gray.
>> So it is easier to read a line.
>> How do I do this with Writer?
>>
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>>      
> Hello James,
>
> I do not think there is an automatic way to do that, but I recall
> someone having written a macro which did just that... I am sure it is
> hidden somewhere on the OOoForum but I could find the URL... :-)
>
> One option is to create a small table (two rows, two columns, plus
> column/row heading if needed), apply manually the formatting desired,
> and then add this style to the auto-format styles.
> Then select your table and apply the autoformat you just defined.
>
> Not as good as the macro, but definitely going to save a lot of work.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michele
>    

I wrote a macro that I use to format my tables... It does something
similar...

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