Using 5.2 (1860) I have a table and I can not match the colors of some of my cells. Is there an easy way to select the formatting of a cell and just copy it to another cell? When I select the color options for the cells I want to change, the light grey option is not there. See the attached image. I want to simply copy the lighter grey cell color so it spans the entire 2nd and 4th rows.
Thanks in advance!
Hi southwestform;
Use Option+Command+C to copy, and Option+Command+V to paste the cell style.
Regards,
One way would be to control click each cell in the 2nd row then select Cell in the Format side panel > Fill.
Once you have a cell color set, you can make adjacent cells the same color by clicking in the cell with the color, and then roll your mouse pointer over the edge of the cell in the direction you want to propagate the cell color. When you see a yellow dot appear on the cell boundary, click and drag in the direction of the cells whose color are to match the original cell color.
For non-adjacent cells, click in the cell with the color you want to replicate. In the Format > Cell panel, click Fill, and choose Color Fill. Click on the color globe, and use the hand lens icon to capture the original color into the color chooser. This is now the fill color. Click on the non-adjacent cell you want to color, and reselect Color Fill from the Cell panel. The cell will fill with the specified color. Repeat paragraph one as needed.
If you want to fill an entire row with the same color, click on the row number (or range of cells using the shift key) so that the entire row is selected. Then choose Cell > Color Fill and the row will be set to the specified color.
That made the cells white for some reason and not the light grey I was trying for.
Thanks though.
I actually have in one row, white cells, light grey and dark grey cells. When shift clicking the cells and choosing color fill, how does it know which color to make all of the cells since there are 3 colors in the selected cells? It made them all dark grey. How do I specify the light grey as the color to make all the cells?
Thanks.
Hi southwestform;
If you mean by Light Grey as Snow, click the fill color globe.
Click Crayons tab > select Snow pencil (lower right-hand side).
If the Snow pencil is darker, use the Opacity slider to make the color light.
If the Snow pencil is lighter, select Mercury pencil and adjust the color tone using Opacity slider till you get desired color tone.
Regards,
The light gray can be found as Alternating Row Color, under Table.
The problem with Tables is the Alternating Row Color. The 'Fill' is supposedly none, which is why, when you copy and paste its style it turns white i.e. no colour fill. A better option might be to uncheck Alternating Row Color, then shift click the cells or just click the row and select the color fill under the Cell tab.
Matching table cell colors?
