If by shading you mean highlighting, the answer is no. You can select a word
(or words) in the cell, click Format Cell, and this will bring up the Font
tab. You can then change the font, font style, size, underline, and color,
but no highlighting.

"Peppermint" wrote:

Word 2003 has a feature whereby you can select part of the text in a cell and
apply shading to only that text. Does Excel have such a feature - or
something similar? I need to put black shading on a few words of text in a
cell, but not on ALL the text in that cell.