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Creating a Shaded Area

Drag the pointer to select the area in which you want to apply shading.
If you are using this technique to shade a column of cells, drag the pointer and hold Alt to select the area that contains the column you want to shade.
On the Home tab, click Section, and then click the Boxes tab.
Click New box to design the parameters for the shaded area.
Type or select the left and right positions for the shading using the horizontal ruler as a guideline.
Type or select the vertical distance from the top of the section to the top of the shading.
Type or select the vertical distance from the bottom of the section to the bottom of the shading.
To draw an outline around the shaded area, in the Line thickness box, type or select the thickness of the line.
To outline all sides of the box, select the Top of box, Bottom of box, Left side and Right side check boxes.
Select a color in the Shading color box.

Notes

You can add shading to text, cells, or pictures. In designing financial statements, you can shade a column of figures for ease in detecting photocopied statements.
If you do not want to outline the shaded area, set the Line thickness to zero and clear the Top of box, Bottom of box, Left side and Right side check boxes.

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