Is there a way to change background color for a table in onenote?

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In word or excel or power point you can change the background color of a table or selected rows or columns of a table, but I can't find a way to do this is onenote.
Is there a way to do this?

score 23 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

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In Microsoft OneNote 2013+:

In a table:

highlight the row, cell or column you want to shade
right click and select table
shade
select your color and voila! Your column is shaded.

edited Jun 12 '20 at 13:48

Community

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answered Jan 15 '14 at 15:59

Ron

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Are you sure using OneNote to do this and note Word? I don't have a shade option. – Kyeotic Apr 29 '14 at 22:14
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The menu option exists in 2013, but not in 2010. If you apply color in 2013 it does not show up in 2010 (I have a table shared between both versions right now). – Ben Jackson Jul 03 '14 at 00:29
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Does this only apply since onenote 2013? – user1605665 Nov 16 '16 at 04:55
This also works in OneNote 2016 (Plus) – wp78de Apr 24 '21 at 03:04

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 21 '12 at 17:58

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There is no way to change the background color of cells in a table in OneNote http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-onenote/in-onenote-tables-how-can-i-change-the-background/5fe682ea-5a07-43dd-815a-2b4d8af646d5.

answered Feb 21 '12 at 17:58

eichoa3I

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OneNote 2013 now has RMB >> Table >> Shading. – apalopohapa Jan 09 '15 at 16:38

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 27 '12 at 13:34

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Create a shape in Word and fill with desired colour. Copy into OneNote and 'send to back' behind table. Hope this helps!

answered Apr 27 '12 at 13:34

Beep

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Thanks, this should work but it is less than ideal, I wish microsoft added this feature to the next version. – Ali Apr 27 '12 at 13:48
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Nice workaround, won't try it though :) Wondering why Microsoft left out such a basic feature... – Sander Jun 06 '12 at 11:20

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 11 '15 at 15:07

I'm on One Note for Mac so not sure if this is the same on Windows.

Highlight the row/cells to be shaded
In the toolbar, click on "Table" tab which appears.
Locate "Shading" at the right-end of that tab.

It is odd this does not appear from the context (right-click) menu.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Jun 03 '20 at 21:32

This is with "OneNote for Windows 10" - which is the half-baked, crippled "successor" to OneNote 2016, but it seems to be what we all end up using.

Just highlight/select the desired cells with the mouse, then when you let go of the mouse button to complete the selection, a context/format menu appears. The paint can is "Shading".

Here's how it looks in a screen shot:

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 03 '17 at 16:05

(Not sure on previous versions: I'm using 2016).

If it helps, One Note auto creates what looks like a table if you tab between data columns. N.B. This is not a 'proper' table and you can't format to shade a row etc

If you go to the Insert tab and create a table from there, you can then change the formatting by right clicking, choosing table, and then a list of options will appear.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 21 '19 at 23:11

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Highlight the table cells. Click on the "Layout" tab in OneNote. Select Shading and choose the color. This link should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_CBXFLqM4A

answered Oct 21 '19 at 23:11

KAT OLARTE

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Is there a way to change background color for a table in onenote?

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In Microsoft OneNote 2013+: