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?

microsoft-onenote

Ali

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 1 288

Answers

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.

eichoa3I

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 1 394

4OneNote 2013 now has RMB >> Table >> Shading. – apalopohapa – 2015-01-09T16:38:47.207

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.

Ron

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 171

6The 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 – 2014-07-03T00:29:33.463

1Does this only apply since onenote 2013? – user1605665 – 2016-11-16T04:55:14.300

Are you sure using OneNote to do this and note Word? I don't have a shade option. – Kyeotic – 2014-04-29T22:14:06.407

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

Beep

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 41

Thanks, this should work but it is less than ideal, I wish microsoft added this feature to the next version. – Ali – 2012-04-27T13:48:59.103

2Nice workaround, won't try it though :) Wondering why Microsoft left out such a basic feature... – Sander – 2012-06-06T11:20:48.483

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.

IronRod

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 151

(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.

TheNicJJ

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 1

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

KAT OLARTE

Posted 2012-02-21T17:46:02.697

Reputation: 1

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

Answers

In Microsoft OneNote 2013+: