Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated January 18, 2022)
This tip applies to Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
If you haven't tried out the conditional formatting features of Excel before, they can be quite handy. One way to use this feature is to cause Excel to shade every other row in a table. This is great when you have a particularly wide table, and you want to make it a bit easier to read on printouts. Simply follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Conditional Formatting dialog box.
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0
Figure 2. The Patterns tab of the Format Cells dialog box.
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ExcelTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Excel training. This tip (2799) applies to Microsoft Excel 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Excel (Excel 2007 and later) here: Shading Rows with Conditional Formatting.
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