How can I change the background color of a cell in LyX?

Question

I have a table in LyX:

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How can I change the background color of one cell, or alternate the background color between rows?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '14 at 00:33

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You can use the excellent colortbl package to do this.

answered Jul 05 '14 at 00:33

IUnknown

Thanks indeed that's what I use when I edit the code directly, but does LyX provide any GUI way to do it (like it does for text coloring for instance)? – Franck Dernoncourt Jul 05 '14 at 04:57
No UI unfortunately, as its an external package. But isn't that the beauty of LaTeX? Use it a couple of times and you wouldn't care about a GUI :) – IUnknown Jul 06 '14 at 08:26
@FranckDernoncourt: [Share this idea](http://www.lyx.org/GetInvolved#toc7) with the LyX team as a feature request. – Werner Aug 01 '14 at 00:06

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