The advantage with an AutoText entry is that you can store the applied
styles and the table formatting together. But of course, the advantage
of table styles is that you can easily apply and modify table
formatting to tables in your document.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"markf" wrote in message
ups.com...
I have encountered exactly the same problem that Jackie describes.
So
far, my workaround is to define two styles: a Table Style and a
Text
Style. Then 1) create a new table using the Table Style 2) select
the
entire table 3) apply the Text Style that is associated with this
table.

Cumbersome - yes. Two steps instead of one. But it seems to be
stable
across different documents. Of course it gets worse if your table
contains more than one text style.

MarkF
Office 2003 SP2
Windows XP Pro


"Jackie" wrote in message
...
I'm creating a company template, and need to include a table
autoformat/style
that defines the font and paragraph properties that each table
should adopt.

I created a table Autoformat, and specified the correct font
(trebuchet) and
paragraph properties (space before and after: 3pt) - the problem
is
that
these are never actually applied when I insert a new table -
instead
each new
table I insert picks up the paragraph style currently in use on
the
page
(usually Body Text, which has inappropriate spacing
before/after).

So, at the moment I have to always adjust the cell para styles
after
inserting the table each time - this is a problem because my
template users
keep forgetting to make this change.

What's the best way to approach this problem?

(I have seen posts elsewhere that link the problem with a
modified
Normal
para style - I've tried setting that back to Word's default, but
this doesn't
seem to help...)

Many thanks for your attention,

Jackie