Using gradients in tables

We know it's very easy to apply solid color fills to table cells using either…the Swatches panel or the Strokes and Fills dialog.…We can also apply gradients to table cells the same way, but gradients don't get…applied exactly the way we might like. Let's take a look.…I have a few gradients set up in this document and I'm going to open the…Swatches panel, and pull it over here, so we can it a little bit more clearly,…and I have three gradients.…One goes from just one color to another, and then I have one that goes from…one color to another, and then back again, our A-B-A_gradient, and then we…have a radial gradient.…

I'm going to switch to the Type tool by pressing the letter T and we'll go into…Normal Mode, so that we can see what this looks like.…If I select an entire row of this table and apply a gradient, we'll choose the…A-B_gradient, doesn't look so bad.…It goes from one color to another.…Let's try our A-B-A_gradient.…That looks pretty good too.…But, the problem comes in if we try to apply it to a single column.…