Word 2003: how to set shading for every cell having text containing a key word?

chrisjj · #1 09-02-2025, 07:24 AM

... short of each one individually manually.

E.g. I have a column headed Day and I want each cell in it that contains Monday to be shaded blue.

First thought was Find and Replace > Format, but it lacks the Borders and Shading of Menubar > Format:

Second thought was use Menubar > Format > Borders and Shading after somehow auto-selecting the matching cells, but I find no such option.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

macropod · #2 09-03-2025, 02:53 AM

Not possible. Word has no built-in conditional formatting functionality for tables. You would need to apply the formatting manually - or you could automate it with a macro (that you would still need to run manually).

chrisjj · #3 09-03-2025, 07:54 AM

Thanks. I used a macro.

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