You can add shading to cells by filling them with solid colors or specific patterns. If you have trouble printing the cell shading that you applied in color, verify that print options are set correctly.

This article shows you how to automatically apply shading to every other row or column in a worksheet.

Here's how: Select the range of cells that you want to format. Go to Home > Format as Table. Pick a table style that has alternate row shading. To change the shading from rows to …

Adding shading to a table can help make certain rows, columns, or cells—or the entire table—stand out in your document. The easiest way to add colored shading to a table is to use …

You can add shading to cells by filling them with a solid color, a pattern color, a pattern style, or any combination of the three. You can remove cell shading if you no longer need it.

Add or change a fill of a table cell, including applying colors, gradients, textures, and patterns, in PowerPoint for Mac.

To add a shadow to a shape, you use Shape Effects, and to add a shadow to text, you use Text Effects. Select a heading below to expand the section and see the instructions:

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Format cells in a worksheet by applying cell shading, using standard and custom colors, or remove a cell shading format from cells.

Select the cell or range of cells that you want to apply cell shading to. For more information about how to apply formatting to a worksheet, see Format a worksheet.