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Customize cell appearance

You can customize the appearance of table cells.

The**** Cell background color and Borders tools are located on the Home tab, in the Font group. The buttons display a quick-apply option.

Quickly apply fill or borders​

  1. Select the desired cells.
  2. Click the Cell background color or Borders button.

Customize table cell fill​

  1. Select the desired cells.
  2. Click the arrow next to the Cell background color button.
  3. Select a fill color from the menu.
  4. If you want to remove the fill, select No color.

Set table cell borders​

  1. Select the desired cells.
  2. Click the arrow next to the Borders button.
  3. In the menu, select the border type, line type, and color.
  4. If you want to remove specific borders, select the border type, then select the line type No border.
  5. To remove all borders, select the border type No borders.

If borders are removed, cells will be separated by light gray lines. These lines are not printed or included in PDFs.