You've not misread anything. Stippling, crosshatching, etc
gives you a means of distinguishing cells ([Fill] Pattern dropdown)
particularly in black and white printing, which is on the pattern tab
within format, and background color is also on the pattern tab.

The poster did not define what was meant by two colors, if he
means gradient shading from dark blue to light blue like the
title bar than he would have to use a transparent shape (picture).


"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message ...
David

Can you expand on this a bit or have I misread?


Gord

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:01:36 -0400, "David McRitchie"
wrote:

You can have black as a pattern within the cell
Format, Cells, pattern, choose a pattern, and choose a color.