Hi Lynn,
Welcome to this Microsoft Project newsgroup
If you have Project 2007, you can colour the table cells via Format/Text
Styles.. and in the dialog, bottom left, you can choose a background colour.
Earlier versions only allow the text to be coloured. For the Gantt bars,
chose Format/Bar Styles... .
FAQs, companion products and other useful Project information can be seen at
this web address:
http://project.mvps.org/faqs.htm
Hope this helps - please let us know how you get on
Mike Glen
MS Project MVP
See
http://tinyurl.com/2xbhc for my free Project Tutorials