[mso] Re: Cell Background Formatting in Excel 2003

  • From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 19:48:28 +1000

Consider using conditional formatting.  A conditional formatting formula of

=MOD(ROW(),2)=0

will be true on every even-numbered row.

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michele Wong" <balboagrad@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 2:05 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: Cell Background Formatting in Excel 2003


> Oops...I forgot to mention that we don't want to have to use Paste Special
> each time we copy/paste.
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Michele Wong
> Reliable Cyber Solutions, LLC
> http://www.reliablecyber.com
>
>
> On 5/17/07, Joe Saxon <calebrot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Select Paste Special which will give you an option box as to what you 
>> want
>> to copy, there you can select to not copy the formatting.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
>> Behalf
>> Of Michele Wong
>> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:36 PM
>> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [mso] Cell Background Formatting in Excel 2003
>>
>> I have an invoice that I created in an Excel spreadsheet. The rows are
>> alternating color and white (or no background color). When I do a copy of
>> the colored row and paste in a white row, the white cells that were 
>> pasted
>> now take on the color of the row they were in. Is there a way to prevent
>> this from happening?
>
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