Can I "shade" just the text, not the entire cell, with a gray background,
inside an Excel Cell?
Thanks

Not possible.

You could stick a tiny rectangle from the Drawing toolbar into the cell, add
text to that then color the rectangle.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:39:01 -0800, i2meek
wrote:

Can I "shade" just the text, not the entire cell, with a gray background,
inside an Excel Cell?
Thanks

I'm not aware of any means of doing this unless you can find and import a
specific font that has a grey backgound.

Depending on whether you want to simply highlight some specific text, or
highlight text in general, the following may be of use:

- using the drawing tools, create a rectangle to the same size as the chosen
text.
- goto Format¦Autoshape...¦Colors and Lines and select an appropriate fill
color and no line color
- select the Semitransparent checkbox
- goto the Properties tab and check "Move but don't size with cells".



"i2meek" wrote:

Can I "shade" just the text, not the entire cell, with a gray background,
inside an Excel Cell?
Thanks