

This variation on the paste shortcut pastes just the formatting. You can build the selection set by holding down the Ctrl key as you add or remove cells from the set.)

(Of course, you could make changes directly to the style definition itself.) This, however, doesn't affect the cell background it only affects the text within the cell. The closest way to do this would be to define a special style that can be applied to the text within the table cells, and then you could use Find and Replace to locate the style and make changes. Unfortunately there is no way to do this-backgrounds in table cells are not findable or replaceable with the Find and Replace tool. He wonders if there is a way to use Find and Replace to change the color of table cells. Recently he wanted to do the same with the background shading of table cells. Jim knows how to use advanced Find and Replace to change font color globally throughout a document.
