[Stefan Blom[_3_]]

We all use table styles, in the sense that we can't get rid of them
completely. :-)

But, like you, I don't (normally) choose to make use of them actively, no.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Ah, okay. I never use table styles, so I'd forgotten this.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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But you can modify the table style to include the setting (for the first
row): In the Modify Style dialog box, for "Apply formatting to," choose
"Header row." Then click Format, Table Properties. On the Row tab, select
"Repeat as header row at the top of each page" and then click OK twice.
When you create a table with the modified style, the "Repeat..." setting
will be applied automatically.

Note that I tested this in Word 2007; I don't know if it works properly
in Word 2003 as well.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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AFAICS it doesn't do it even for the first row. At least that's what
happened to me. I inserted a table, marked the first two rows as
headings, selected a table style with distinctive formatting for the
heading row, and applied it. Only the first row was formatted as a
heading, so I clicked in the second row to see if "Heading Rows Repeat"
was checked. Not only was it not checked, it wasn't available
(indicating that the first row wasn't marked as a heading row, either).
When I selected the top two rows and marked them as heading rows, then
the heading row formatting was applied to both.

I just tested this again with a new table (without marking any heading
rows). The table style *formats* the top row as a heading row but does
not enable "Heading Rows Repeat." Moreover, based on another test,
applying the table style disables "Heading Rows Repeat" when it has
already been enabled.

The above applies to both Word 2003 and Word 2007 (with the distinction
that in Word 2007, the button is "Repeat Header Rows").

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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OK, that is good news. However, my point was that a table style cannot
apply the "Repeat as heading row..." setting *automatically* to more
than the first row.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Based on what I have read (and my experimentation), if you define
formatting for a heading row, apply the table style, and then select
two
rows as heading rows, the heading row formatting will be applied to
both.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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1. Use the Modify Style dialog box to modify a table style in Word.
The
exact steps depend on your version of Word.

2. As far as I know, this is not possible in Word. The best you can
do
with table styles is set the *first* row as a heading row. There are
other methods that can be used, such as AutoText (building blocks) or
macros.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"noa" wrote in message
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Hello,

I want to set up the default table format on an RTF document that
will
take
the fist 2 rows in my table and repeat them as a header on all the
pages
the
table extends to.

so I need to know 2 things
1. how do i edit the default table style
2. is it possible to set the first 2 rows as the header.

the data in my table is generated automatically and I don't know in
advance
how big it will be.

thank you