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Emily Ross
May 18, 2018Copper Contributor
Banded Rows in Excel not working
Under the Design tab, I selected the "Banded Rows" option. When I did, the Table Styles preview then showed banded rows. Then when I tried to apply a style that had banded rows, the banded rows did ...
- May 18, 2018
Emily,
I guess that the table already has its own format.
Please select the table, then go to Home >> Font >> Fill Color.
And select No Fill as shown in the below screenshot:
Hope that helps
Haytham
geoperkins
Sep 10, 2019Copper Contributor
This is not working for me. Still no alternating row color.
AmigoDeluxe
Dec 09, 2020Copper Contributor
geoperkinsTurns out yo need to have a field under "Values" in your Pivot Table to get banded rows...
I know... it is a feature 🙂
- JamesBaliscianoJan 13, 2021Copper ContributorAmigoDeluxe thank you! That was the piece I was missing.
Unfortunate that I need to choose between adding a field I don't need and the formatting that I want.- AmigoDeluxeJan 14, 2021Copper Contributor
JamesBalisciano I agree with you. My first thought was to just hide that extra column but that caused the issue again so the workaround I found was to set the column's width to 1 pixel so not really hidden but "invisible" to the eye.