Creating a Custom Style Pattern
In Creating a Custom Table Style, you learned how to specify your own table style by applying visual formats to different regions of the table. You can create more complex visual styles by specifying a row/column pattern for the table styles. The pattern is a mathematical rule that determines the rows or columns to which the formatting is applied. For example, you can add a background color to every other row, or you can add a heavy border to every 3rd column.
To create a pattern for use in a table style, follow the steps below:
1. Create a new table style and open the Table Style Editor as described in Creating a Custom Table Style.
2. In the Regions panel, right-click the 'Custom Patterns' node, and select the 'New Pattern' option.

This opens the 'Row/Column Pattern' dialog box.

3. On the Row/Column tab, select 'Row' to designate a row-based pattern rule, or select 'Column' to designate a column-based pattern rule.
4. In the 'Row' or 'Column' text field, enter an integer value to the indicate the interval at which the style should be applied. For example, a value of “4” indicates that the style will be applied to the 4th row or column.
5. Select the 'Repeat' option to repeat this pattern for subsequent rows/columns. For example, this would repeat the formatting in the previous step to every 4th row or column in the specified range.
6. In the 'Cell Range' field, indicate whether the specified pattern should be in effect for 'All' rows or columns, or only for a specified range of cells.
7. (Optional) Click the Grouping tab to specify formatting pattern for group headers and footers.
8. Click 'OK' to save the style pattern. The new pattern is now listed under the 'Custom Patterns' node in the Regions panel.

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