Probably a newbie question

Aspose.Words Product Family
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Greetings
I have just started using Aspose.Word, and while it seems like a fairly good product, I really could use more code examples.

Right now I have a problem with finding out how to change the background color of a table or cell in a worddocument. Is there an easy way to do this?

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Hi,

Thank you for your interest in Aspose.Word and your positive report.

Yes, this is pretty easy. There is the Shading class allowing you to set background color of a table cell or paragraph, you can use various shading textures including solid. Here is an example of how to create a table with 4 cells having different shading:

Document doc = new Document();
DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(doc);
builder.StartTable();
builder.InsertCell();
builder.CellFormat.Shading.Texture = TextureIndex.TextureSolid;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.Blue;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.ForegroundPatternColor = Color.Blue;
builder.InsertCell();
builder.CellFormat.Shading.Texture = TextureIndex.TextureDiagonalCross;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.YellowGreen;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.ForegroundPatternColor = Color.HotPink;
builder.EndRow();
builder.InsertCell();
builder.CellFormat.Shading.Texture = TextureIndex.Texture50Percent;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.Indigo;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.ForegroundPatternColor = Color.LightSkyBlue;
builder.InsertCell();
builder.CellFormat.Shading.Texture = TextureIndex.TextureHorizontal;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.Tomato;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.ForegroundPatternColor = Color.LightSalmon;
builder.EndRow();
builder.EndTable();
doc.Save("result.doc");