====== Zebra striping in Libreoffice/Openoffice ======

  - With Calc opened up, view the Styles and Formatting window (Format > Styles and Formatting)
  - Right click in the empty white space of that box and select "New"
  - Name the new cell style "odd"
    - Change the background color of the cell to a color of your desire
    - Click OK
  - Repeat step #2 and create a style called "even"
    - Change the background color to a different color of your choice
    - Click OK
   - Select the range of cells that you want to zebra strip
   - Click Format > Conditional Formating...
   - Change the values in that box to match these
   - The brains of this operation is the MOD(ROW();2)=0 and MOD(ROW();2)=1
   - To tweak the formating just edit the styles "odd" and "even"

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Ref: http://www.shanestillwell.com/blog/2008/06/27/zebra-stripes-openoffice-calc

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