Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for refrence
purposes.

You could use Conditional Formatting.

Select your range of cells to shade
From the Format Menu, choose "Conditional Formatting..."
Change "Cell Value Is" to "Formula Is"
Enter the formula: =MOD(ROW(),2)=0
Select your format (gray background)
Click OK

HTH,
Elkar


"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for refrence
purposes.

Thank you Elkar! This solutions brings up another question. Is there anyway
to use this solution to make every other column in a selected row switch
positions. (ie. what was in A1 moves to A2 and what was in A2 moves to A1, A3
switches with A4, A5 with A6... all the way down). If so it would solve a
flash card making problem in which (through a Word mailmerge) the fronts of
the cards (column A = words) do not have the correct back of card (column B =
word definition). I think the problem would be solved by inverting every
other row in excel then doing the mail merge on word.

"Elkar" wrote:

You could use Conditional Formatting.

Select your range of cells to shade
From the Format Menu, choose "Conditional Formatting..."
Change "Cell Value Is" to "Formula Is"
Enter the formula: =MOD(ROW(),2)=0
Select your format (gray background)
Click OK

HTH,
Elkar


"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for refrence
purposes.

See http://www.xldynamic.com/source/xld.CF.html#rows

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)



"Alan" wrote in message
...
Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every
other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for
refrence
purposes.

Alan, did you ever figure out how to do this becuase I am running into the
same problem trying to make some notecards for my medical school board exams.
If you figured out how to do this I woul greatly appreciate it because I
have all my data in two column format, but like you said the cards don't line
up right when you try and print it two sided.

thanks,
dustin

"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for refrence
purposes.

Hi Dustin

Select the range of rows / columns that you wish to color.
FormatConditional Formattinguse dropdown to select Formula is
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0 FormatChoose whatever Fill color you want.

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Regards
Roger Govier

"dustin" wrote in message
...
Alan, did you ever figure out how to do this becuase I am running into the
same problem trying to make some notecards for my medical school board
exams.
If you figured out how to do this I woul greatly appreciate it because I
have all my data in two column format, but like you said the cards don't
line
up right when you try and print it two sided.

thanks,
dustin

"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every
other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for
refrence
purposes.

Select a gaggle of rows then..........

FormatConditional FormattingFormula is:

=MOD(SUBTOTAL(3,$A1:$A$2),2)=0

Pick a gray from the FormatPatterns

The difference between Roger's formula and mine is that mine will hold the
banding through filtering.

Otherwise............no difference.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 17 May 2008 01:10:00 -0700, dustin
wrote:

Alan, did you ever figure out how to do this becuase I am running into the
same problem trying to make some notecards for my medical school board exams.
If you figured out how to do this I woul greatly appreciate it because I
have all my data in two column format, but like you said the cards don't line
up right when you try and print it two sided.

thanks,
dustin

"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for refrence
purposes.

Excellent idea Gord.

May be sensible to AND another condition to prevent any blank rows below the
data from picking up the formatting
=AND(MOD(SUBTOTAL(3,$A1:$A$2),2)=0,COUNTA(ROW())0 )
Subtotal(3,rng) will give strange results if there are numbers in in say the
first 9 of 20 rows formatted, and blank cells in the remaining 20
--
Regards
Roger Govier

"Gord Dibben" <gorddibbATshawDOTca wrote in message
...
Select a gaggle of rows then..........

FormatConditional FormattingFormula is:

=MOD(SUBTOTAL(3,$A1:$A$2),2)=0

Pick a gray from the FormatPatterns

The difference between Roger's formula and mine is that mine will hold
the
banding through filtering.

Otherwise............no difference.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

On Sat, 17 May 2008 01:10:00 -0700, dustin

wrote:

Alan, did you ever figure out how to do this becuase I am running into the
same problem trying to make some notecards for my medical school board
exams.
If you figured out how to do this I woul greatly appreciate it because I
have all my data in two column format, but like you said the cards don't
line
up right when you try and print it two sided.

thanks,
dustin

"Alan" wrote:

Any suggestions on how to quickly select every other row OR fill every
other
row? With large lists I like to color every other row light gray for
refrence
purposes.

Thanks Roger.

I'll add it to my list.


Gord

On Sat, 17 May 2008 19:01:18 +0100, "Roger Govier"
<roger@technology4unospamdotcodotuk wrote:

Excellent idea Gord.

May be sensible to AND another condition to prevent any blank rows below the
data from picking up the formatting
=AND(MOD(SUBTOTAL(3,$A1:$A$2),2)=0,COUNTA(ROW()) 0)
Subtotal(3,rng) will give strange results if there are numbers in in say the
first 9 of 20 rows formatted, and blank cells in the remaining 20