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Shade a cell but not print that color?
Is there any other method?
actually i don't want to print cell color for some range only.
Thanks in advance
This is so helpful, thanks so much!
Thank you Logaraj for the helpful suggestion! This is a fantastic work-around. But unless there is another solution, I presume that I can't BOTH hide the one shaded color but otherwise print my sheet in color.
Joel, try using conditional formatting (Home, Styles, Conditional Formatting). Select the cells you want to be highlighted yellow and click Conditional Formatting, New Rule. Under Rule Type select "Format only cells that contain" and choose Cell Value (1st drop down), equal to (2nd drop down), and type 0 in the 3rd box. Then click Format and under the Fill Tab choose the color you want the empty cells to be highlighted (in your case, yellow). Click OK and OK again in the initial rule window. This allows you to highlight cells that don't have information and send a digital file to be filled out. Once the person fills in the required cells, the yellow highlight is removed and can be printed. Good luck!
Hi Joel,
I guess in general that's possible using VBA script if in Workbook_BeforePrint event remove the color from the range and in Worbook_AfterPrint return the color back.
Somethig like that, but this is just an idea.
