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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: * Word cells: possible to shade?
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Date: 25 Apr 91 15:49:35 GMT
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In article <1991Apr24.155921.29985@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 1k1mgm@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Christopher Gunn) writes:

>Use 'Copy as Picture' to get cell on clipboard, paste into MacDraw or
>some such, apply shaded background, cut, get back into Word, paste, and
>then tinker around *endlessly* with negative line spacing numbers
>and/or absolute positioning in order to get it to come out right.
>It's doable, but a royal pain in the ass.  The one good thing is
>that Word does come pretty close to clipping tone block to the
>defined cell boundaries right and bottom, so you don't have to be very
>precise about those from inside MacDraw or whatever.

Another way to shade a cell would be to create a grey box and paste it into
the cell.  Given that Word treats a graphic as if it were a character, you can
use the math formatting commands to overlay text on the graphic, i.e.
/O({graphic}, text from cell).  I've used this technique to create mail merged
name tags with graphics in the name tag.  This will take almost as much tweaking
as useing the position command, though.