Automatic Alternate Row Shading For Tables?

Hi Folks,

I have several reports with tables created in Word 2003 that I am constantly
updating, deleting rows, adding rows. I need the report to have alternate
row shading (every other row that is). I create similar reports in Access
2003 and found some VBA code at Microsoft's website to do this for me
automatically. Is there a similar way to do this in Word so I don't have to
it manually which can be very time consuming. Thanks in advance for any and
all help provided. :-)


Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.

Create - or use a built in - Table Style with alternate row shading.

In the style dialog there is a dropdown labelled "Apply formatting to" and
you can select "Even Row stripes" and "Odd row stripes" and format each as
you wish.

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Enjoy,
Tony

"Roger Tregelles" wrote in message
...
Hi Folks,

I have several reports with tables created in Word 2003 that I am
constantly
updating, deleting rows, adding rows. I need the report to have alternate
row shading (every other row that is). I create similar reports in Access
2003 and found some VBA code at Microsoft's website to do this for me
automatically. Is there a similar way to do this in Word so I don't have
to
it manually which can be very time consuming. Thanks in advance for any
and
all help provided. :-)


Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.

Tony,

Thanks for the quick and thorough reply. Your recommendation works great!
Thanks so much for helping me out, I really do appreciate it. Take care.

Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.


"Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message
...
Create - or use a built in - Table Style with alternate row shading.

In the style dialog there is a dropdown labelled "Apply formatting to" and
you can select "Even Row stripes" and "Odd row stripes" and format each as
you wish.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

"Roger Tregelles" wrote in message
...
Hi Folks,

I have several reports with tables created in Word 2003 that I am
constantly
updating, deleting rows, adding rows. I need the report to have
alternate
row shading (every other row that is). I create similar reports in
Access
2003 and found some VBA code at Microsoft's website to do this for me
automatically. Is there a similar way to do this in Word so I don't have
to
it manually which can be very time consuming. Thanks in advance for any
and
all help provided. :-)


Roger Tregelles
Quality Assurance Engineer
Respironics Inc.