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I have a spreadsheet that I am constantly deleting and adding rows to but in
order to make it easier to read I have every other row highlighted. Well,
everytime I cut and paste or insert I lose the formatting on that row and
have to spend more time fixing it. How do I highlight every other row and
have it stay that way?
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select your range of rows
then delete the current formatting that you got

Then go to Format-- conditional formatting
Select from the drop down "formula is"
and type this
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0

and select the desired format by selecting format-pattern



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I have a spreadsheet that I am constantly deleting and adding rows to but
in
order to make it easier to read I have every other row highlighted. Well,
everytime I cut and paste or insert I lose the formatting on that row and
have to spend more time fixing it. How do I highlight every other row and
have it stay that way?



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That worked! Thank you!!

"N Harkawat" wrote:

select your range of rows
then delete the current formatting that you got

Then go to Format-- conditional formatting
Select from the drop down "formula is"
and type this
=MOD(ROW(),2)=0

and select the desired format by selecting format-pattern



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I have a spreadsheet that I am constantly deleting and adding rows to but
in
order to make it easier to read I have every other row highlighted. Well,
everytime I cut and paste or insert I lose the formatting on that row and
have to spend more time fixing it. How do I highlight every other row and
have it stay that way?




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