Nisus Writer Express - Manual (Page 181)

Creating Documents Book Tools 161
Table 17
A table showing horizontal and vertical gradients as well as shading
Whenever you click your insertion point inside a table the Pattern pop-up menu and the Colors
buttons on the Table Cells Shading palette become enabled.
Figure 152
The Table Cells Shading palette in its most simple form
1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify.
2. Click the Color Picker tool on the left for the foreground and/or on the right for the background
and choose a color from the Colors panel as illustrated in Figure 86 on page 99.
Determine the pattern of cells
Every cell can have its own pattern. Each pattern is an “RTF” pattern which gets saved and
preserved for display in Microsoft Word.
1. Put your insertion point in the cell (or select the cells) you want to modify.
2. Choose the pattern you want from the Pattern pop-up menu in the Table Cells Shading palette.
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A cell with a Pattern set to None can have no color.
Using Gradients and Shading
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