CellFormatShading Property

public Shading Shading { get; }

Public ReadOnly Property Shading As Shading
	Get

public:
property Shading^ Shading {
	Shading^ get ();
}

member Shading : Shading with get

DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder();

// Start building a table
builder.StartTable();

// Set the appropriate paragraph, cell, and row formatting. The formatting properties are preserved
// until they are explicitly modified so there's no need to set them for each row or cell
builder.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Center;

builder.CellFormat.ClearFormatting();
builder.CellFormat.Width = 150;
builder.CellFormat.VerticalAlignment = CellVerticalAlignment.Center;
builder.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.GreenYellow;
builder.CellFormat.WrapText = false;
builder.CellFormat.FitText = true;

builder.RowFormat.ClearFormatting();
builder.RowFormat.HeightRule = HeightRule.Exactly;
builder.RowFormat.Height = 50;
builder.RowFormat.Borders.LineStyle = LineStyle.Engrave3D;
builder.RowFormat.Borders.Color = Color.Orange;

builder.InsertCell();
builder.Write("Row 1, Col 1");

builder.InsertCell();
builder.Write("Row 1, Col 2");

builder.EndRow();

// Remove the shading (clear background)
builder.CellFormat.Shading.ClearFormatting();

builder.InsertCell();
builder.Write("Row 2, Col 1");

builder.InsertCell();
builder.Write("Row 2, Col 2");

builder.EndRow();

builder.InsertCell();

// Make the row height bigger so that a vertically oriented text could fit into cells
builder.RowFormat.Height = 150;
builder.CellFormat.Orientation = TextOrientation.Upward;
builder.Write("Row 3, Col 1");

builder.InsertCell();
builder.CellFormat.Orientation = TextOrientation.Downward;
builder.Write("Row 3, Col 2");

builder.EndRow();

builder.EndTable();

builder.Document.Save(ArtifactsDir + "DocumentBuilder.InsertTable.docx");

Document doc = new Document();

// We start by creating the table object. Note how we must pass the document object
// to the constructor of each node. This is because every node we create must belong
// to some document
Table table = new Table(doc);
// Add the table to the document
doc.FirstSection.Body.AppendChild(table);

// Here we could call EnsureMinimum to create the rows and cells for us. This method is used
// to ensure that the specified node is valid, in this case a valid table should have at least one
// row and one cell, therefore this method creates them for us

// Instead we will handle creating the row and table ourselves. This would be the best way to do this
// if we were creating a table inside an algorithm for example
Row row = new Row(doc);
row.RowFormat.AllowBreakAcrossPages = true;
table.AppendChild(row);

// We can now apply any auto fit settings
table.AutoFit(AutoFitBehavior.FixedColumnWidths);

// Create a cell and add it to the row
Cell cell = new Cell(doc);
cell.CellFormat.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = Color.LightBlue;
cell.CellFormat.Width = 80;

// Add a paragraph to the cell as well as a new run with some text
cell.AppendChild(new Paragraph(doc));
cell.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(new Run(doc, "Row 1, Cell 1 Text"));

// Add the cell to the row
row.AppendChild(cell);

// We would then repeat the process for the other cells and rows in the table
// We can also speed things up by cloning existing cells and rows
row.AppendChild(cell.Clone(false));
row.LastCell.AppendChild(new Paragraph(doc));
row.LastCell.FirstParagraph.AppendChild(new Run(doc, "Row 1, Cell 2 Text"));

// Remove spacing between cells
table.AllowCellSpacing = false;

doc.Save(ArtifactsDir + "Table.InsertTableUsingNodes.doc");