Filling a cell in a table with colour

[spotit3]

I am trying to fill cells in a table with various colours. Can anyone tell me how to do this please?
I know I can highlight the text but the colours are very limited and I need to use quite an array of colours, like the palette you get to change font with.

[ChuckFickens]

In what??

I will assume excel though.

There's a little icon on the tool bar that looks like a paint pot pouring paint, click on the arrow right beside it it and a little menu pops up of the colours, click the colour you want and if fill the selected cells

[ACtheTROLL]

have you got the legs the same length?

[spotit3]

Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! I should have said I was working in Word. I realise cell made it sound like Excel.

[weeal]

lol @ acthetroll

In Word, highlight the cell, choose FORMAT, Borders & Shading, then Shading and pick your colours from there.

[ChuckFickens]

insert an excel worksheet to use as your table and fill those as I said above, this will give you a far wider range of colours

[beejay1124]

bigal-seen you mentioning on 46(approx) other threads you were heading to the fleapit

[ChuckFickens]

or like weeal says, but make sure you select apply to cell not table :)

I don't use word much :)

[weeal]

i said it on two me thinks and im offksi this time, you following me? lol

[weeal]

beejay i will warm it up for ya

[beejay1124]

shout down whem you have my side warmed-are you for taking your teeth out tonite

[weeal]

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[beejay1124]

sorry spotit-icanonly apologise for bigal and i hope you get your table painted

[spotit3]

Thanks to everyone for their answers and witty comments. I was going to use Excel but couldn't fit everything on one sheet and I am not allowed to use a second sheet.