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I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.
Imagine this, but in a word doc:
Pastels: could be tasteful
Neon: what happened to your eyes?
Yeah.
I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.
I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag
Red/green isn't really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.
C# in Excel can't even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I'm going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.
At work, there isn't anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I'm sticking with red/green
What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o
If it was color-coded, it would almost certainly not be referred to as a rainbow.
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I'm defragging my harddrive.