Cell shading / pattern but not text
Thanks.
Do you know if there's a "no color" for text, or some other way so that the
text would appear invisible against a pattern?
As a work-around, against a solid background I could make the text disappear
by making it the same color as the background. But that wouldn't work
against a two-color background pattern, such as blue diagonal lines against a
white (or "no color") background.
"Gord Dibben" wrote:
For the text you could use a custom format of ;;;
BTW......default color for a cell is "no color" , not white.
Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:09:02 -0800, Eric wrote:
I'd like to have cells indicating high/med/low, where low would be
represented by a blank (white) cell, med would be represented by a cell with
patterned shading (for example, blue diagonal lines) and high would be
represented by a colored cell (for example blue).
I can do this by putting values H/M/L (or 1,2,3) or something like that in
the cells, then use conditional formatting. However, I want to see only the
pattern in the cell, and not the text superimposed on the pattern. For the
solid color or blank (white), I could format the text the same color as the
shading, but how could I make the text invisible with the diagonal pattern?
Maybe there's a better way than using conditional formatting.
Any suggestions? Thanks.
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