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title: "Column styles"
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<span style="color: #000000">This page provides an example for column styles usage; consider</span> [Monthly temperatures table](https://appfire.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/TBL/pages/74812593)<span style="color: #000000">, for which you want to set background colors of various columns and auto-number all the rows.</span>

## <span style="color: #000000">Select this macro</span>

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| <span style="color: #000000">**Macro name**</span> | <span style="color: #000000">*Table Plus*</span> |
| <span style="color: #000000">**Macro syntax**</span> | <span style="color: #000000">*{table-plus}*</span> |

## <span style="color: #000000">Define these parameters/values</span>

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| ***Column settings > Formatting > Column Styles (1***<br>***2***<br>***3***<br>***4)*** | background:lightgrey<br>background:lightblue<br>background:lightyellow<br>2 |
| ***Column settings > Numbering & Totaling > Insert auto number column*** | On |

> ⚠️ <span style="color: #000000">Observe that column 1 styling is repeated in column 4 but, number 2 is used instead of 1. This is because </span><span style="color: #000000">*Insert auto number column *</span><span style="color: #000000">in 'On'.</span>

### <span style="color: #000000">Screenshot</span>

![ColumnStyles_formatting_01.jpg](media://13c4e421-bbea-47d8-a26f-77b99a1760ee)

![Column Styles_Numbering_02.jpg](media://9c35272c-5303-40db-90b6-18f48855e6d5)

# <span style="color: #000000">Example result</span>

![image](media://fdbc1f9d-8473-434a-9a2d-fe7e0b369fa1)