Hi Bob - Just trawling through your link, and I may be going blind but
couldn't see any mention for increasing the number of rows within the colour
banding. I usually chuck out the note below for these questions, so
wondered if you might want to add a couple of examples similar to the ones
at the end of my note:-
Use a conditional format to do this and it will not move when you sort the
rows:-
Do CTRL+A, then Format / Conditional Formatting / Change 'cell value is' to
'formula is' and put
in =MOD(ROW(),2)=1
Now click on the format button and choose a nice pastel colour from the
patterns tab. Hit OK till
you are out and you are done.
You could also put in
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0 if you wanted the other rows to be coloured.
You could also put in
=MOD(ROW(),3)=0 if you wanted every 3rd row to be coloured.
You could also put in
=MOD(ROW(),4)=0 if you wanted every 4th row to be coloured.
You could also put in
=MOD(ROW(),5)=0 if you wanted every 5th row to be coloured.
But you probably get the drift by now. Flipping the 1 and the 0 will
determine whether or not you
start with a coloured or a non-coloured row.
If you want to create alternate green bars made up of say 3 rows (or any
other color), you can
also use:
For every three rows:
=MOD(ROW()-1,6)<3
For every four rows:
=MOD(ROW()-1,8)<4
For other number of shadings, just make the 2nd number (6 or 8 in example)
twice as much as the
3rd number (3 or 4 in example)
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Regards
Ken....................... Microsoft MVP - Excel
Sys Spec - Win XP Pro / XL 97/00/02/03
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"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Take a look at http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.CF.html#rows
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RP
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"BAase" wrote in message
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It would be helpful for reading reports, if Excel could shade every 3rd
line
automatically. It would reduce keying errors.