Thank you for this.  Unfortunately, it did not work but when I tinkered
around I found the solution.  So thanks to all who offered advise.

My solution:

1) Select the cells in the table I want tobew a lighter shade of color.
2) Select Format, Borders and Shading.
3) Under Patterns: Style, select the percenatge I want such as 20-or 25%
4) Then, under Color, pick the color I want.
5) My cells will then be changed to the shade of that color I want.

I'm sorry for being so unclear with this and thank you to all who helped.


Karen

On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, A&C Thompson wrote:


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Karen Miller
> Subject: [PCSOFT] Reformatting a Hard Drive
>
>
> > I was told in order to obtain more colors I need to reformat my
> > hard drive and reload Windows.
> **************************
>
> Karen,
>
> After looking back on all the messages related to this topic, I believe I
> know what you are asking. In Word97, there is a shadowing option which is
> listed under view / toolbars / customize / shadow settings. Putting a
> checkmark in the 'shadow settings' box brings up the shadow settings
> toolbar. However, there are no colours to choose. The reason you don't see
> any colours on this toolbar is simple -- you must first have something to
> shade. Try clicking on "Insert / Textbox", then your cursor becomes a + ,
> which you move to where you want to insert the textbox, and click. Now type
> some text into it, and while it is selected, you will have the shadowing
> colours available in the shadows toolbar. I hope this clears up your
> problem...you don't need to format your drive.
>
> Alan Thompson

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