I can't believe my patterns have been removed from Excel and Powerpoint. I
commonly use cross-hatching in combination with colours to ensure my
presentations are printable and photocopyable; and in the case of excel I use
cross-hatching of spreadsheets that display attendance information etc. using
conditional formatting - and now it's taken! It is also very good for
showing negated elements in diagrams and so on, and for ensuring coloured
documents are B&W safe (I don't get a choice on my work printer's
capabilities). Why take them away? The textures are completely naff and
should have gone in the 80s when we began being adults rather than children
with fancy-coloured Nokia phones and naff ring-tones.

This is the 21st Century, and good looking spreadsheets are essential, but
getting information across is more so. I find myself currently copying
patterned shapes from word in order to work around.

HELP! Don't take my patterns away!!! Please reply.
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Ed W
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You do understand that patterns are being removed from shapes and not cells,
right?

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Jim
"Ed W" wrote in message
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|I can't believe my patterns have been removed from Excel and Powerpoint. I
| commonly use cross-hatching in combination with colours to ensure my
| presentations are printable and photocopyable; and in the case of excel I
use
| cross-hatching of spreadsheets that display attendance information etc.
using
| conditional formatting - and now it's taken! It is also very good for
| showing negated elements in diagrams and so on, and for ensuring coloured
| documents are B&W safe (I don't get a choice on my work printer's
| capabilities). Why take them away? The textures are completely naff and
| should have gone in the 80s when we began being adults rather than
children
| with fancy-coloured Nokia phones and naff ring-tones.
|
| This is the 21st Century, and good looking spreadsheets are essential, but
| getting information across is more so. I find myself currently copying
| patterned shapes from word in order to work around.
|
| HELP! Don't take my patterns away!!! Please reply.
| --
| Ed W
| ???????????????????????
| http://peewitemag.wordpress.com/
| ???????????????????????
|
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I wasn't aware of that, however it still causes a problem: I frequently use a
box to cross-hatch an area, for example.
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Ed W

"Jim Rech" wrote:

You do understand that patterns are being removed from shapes and not cells,
right?

--
Jim
"Ed W" wrote in message
...
|I can't believe my patterns have been removed from Excel and Powerpoint. I
| commonly use cross-hatching in combination with colours to ensure my
| presentations are printable and photocopyable; and in the case of excel I
use
| cross-hatching of spreadsheets that display attendance information etc.
using
| conditional formatting - and now it's taken! It is also very good for
| showing negated elements in diagrams and so on, and for ensuring coloured
| documents are B&W safe (I don't get a choice on my work printer's
| capabilities). Why take them away? The textures are completely naff and
| should have gone in the 80s when we began being adults rather than
children
| with fancy-coloured Nokia phones and naff ring-tones.
|
| This is the 21st Century, and good looking spreadsheets are essential, but
| getting information across is more so. I find myself currently copying
| patterned shapes from word in order to work around.
|
| HELP! Don't take my patterns away!!! Please reply.
| --
| Ed W
|
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
| Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow
this
| link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
| click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|
|
http://www.microsoft.com/office/comm...lic.excel.misc