Re: [libreoffice-users] [LibreOffice Writer] Table with alternat[]e row color

At 14:10 15/04/2015 +0200, Alain Ronly wrote:
> I'm looking for a simple and automatic way how to tell to my tables 
> in a writer document, to be formatted with alternat[]e rows color 
> for example even rows will be blue in the background and odd rows 
> will have a light blue as background color. I did not find any easy 
> way to do it. Is there someone who has already solved this topic ?

Not me.

o Once you have set the background colour for one row, you can use 
the Format Paintbrush to paint the same colour on other rows. If you 
double-click the button, you can drag the "paint bucket" across 
alternate rows to achieve one colour and then repeat the process for 
the other colour.

o For large numbers of rows, you can copy an entire existing table 
and paste it immediately following - and you can repeat that process. 
You'll end up with multiple tables, but that may suffice, providing 
you delete the empty paragraph between them. If you need to, you can 
put the cursor into the second table and go to Table | Merge Tables 
(or right-click | Merge Tables) to merge the two tables into one.

o It is somewhat easier to set up such background colouring in a 
spreadsheet than in a Writer table. If you colour two rows you can 
easily copy them to two more. Then you can copy four rows to create 
eight in total. With this binary multiplication, you can very quickly 
achieve the desired size. If you then copy an appropriately-sized 
section of the spreadsheet and paste it into your text document using 
Paste Special... and "HTML (HyperText Markup Language)" you will get 
a table with the same background formatting. The table properties can 
be adjusted as necessary.

o The automatic way to colour spreadsheet rows alternately is to use 
Conditional Formatting and create a formula using the ROW() function 
to determine the oddness or evenness of the row number and control 
the background colouring using cell styles. But unfortunately - and 
as you might expect - the effect of such formatting is lost if you 
paste a copy into a text document as a table. So that's a dead duck.

o It's probably much easier to set up formatting such as this before 
you insert your data. If necessary, you should be able to copy any 
existing material and paste it into a new, formatted table.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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