Shading in table

[Karin]

Hi, I "inherited" a table that has light blue shading on every other row. I
wanted to remove the shading. I tried everything inside the Table
properties/border & shading, fill, highlight, Format/borders shading,
absolutely nothing worked. I had reveal formatting on and it showed the
properties of cell and paragraph to be clear (even though it wasn't).

In desperation I converted the table to text. At that point, I could remove
the shading using Format/Borders & Shading.

Was there any other way to remove the shading from the table? Anyway, maybe
this post will help someone else. This is in Word 2003.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Try changing the table style to Table Normal (or just modify the current
table style not to have alternate row shading).