It's almost like some of the settings worked as switches - if the first row
was bold before the change, and the style makes it bold it will become
normal, if it was normal it will become bold. If I undefine bold, then it
keeps the setting. Very strange and frustrating. The version 2003, no sp or
updates.

This is the way Word works. Somethings, such as italics and bold ARE toggle
settings (bold + bold = not-bold).

When working with Table Styles it's practically a must to start with NO
formatting applied to the text in the table. Select the entire table, press
Ctrl+Spacebar, Ctrl+Q, then apply the Normal style. Then apply your table
style.

Second of the problems is the alignment which i can't get to work at all in
some cases.

You need to be more specific about what kinds of problems you're seeing. But
first see if the above steps help at all, as paragraph alignment may be
conflicting with your table style.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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