You know what, it's worse than that. I experimented and thought I confirmed
that the problem with the Normal style and Table style affected both font
and size (if either was set in Normal, it overrode any settings for Table
style). So, I created a Body Text style and reset Normal back to how it
started. However, after that worked for the first table, for subsequent
tables, the Table style started copying from Body Text. It's as if the
problem with Normal shifted to the Body Text style. So I'm back where I
started.

- Colin


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Since I never use table styles, I'm a bit vague on all this, but perhaps
someone more knowledgeable can answer your question.

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"WebColin" wrote in message
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OK, hmm. That's an annoying bug (I guess they all are).

So, that leads to a few questions:

1. What features of the Table Style are overridden by changes to the
Normal
Style? Is it just the font, or is there more? My Normal style specifies:
font, Right margin, and Space After. It also says (but I think these are
standard) Left, Line spacing: single, and Widow/Orphan control.

2. Is creating a new style (e.g. "Body Text") the best solution?

3. If I do create a new style (answer is Yes to #2), what should I define
in
Normal versus in that other style? Just the font? Is there a "best
practices" on this? Something on one of those great MVP pages?

Thanks so much,
Colin


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
Yes, there is something special about table styles. It's actually a bug
and
will be corrected in Word 12. If you modify the font of Normal style,
then
the table style reverts to the default Normal.dot Normal font (i.e.,
TNR
12).

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"WebColin" wrote in message
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Yes, I changed the core font from Times New Roman to our specified
serif
font for this template. But the Table style font should override that,
shouldn't it? All other styles based on Normal do (e.g., Headings).

[In fact, while it's not technically important, I'd add that using the
Normal style for tables is generally bad formatting. A typical table
should
be in a sans serifed font, whereas body text should be in a serifed
font
(if
you question this, look in any magazine with tables). The only
possible
general purpose exception would be if you were using the table just to
establish placement for various items, and not really as a
conventional
table.]

Is there something special about Table Styles? If so, what should I
do?
I
didn't see a solution or work around on the web page you listed. Is it
to
use a Body Text style instead of Normal for the bulk of the text? If
Normal
is unmodified, would the Table Style fonts work? Is there another
way -
I
don't want to have to go through my docs and change my Normal text to
another style.

Thanks much,
Colin


"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
Did you modify the font of the Normal style? If so, the settings
will
transfer to table styles. See the message by Klaus Linke in the
thread
at:


http://groups.google.se/group/micros...0e16d9c49bac81

If you need more information, try searching the newsgroup archives
at
http://groups.google.com/advanced_search?hl=en

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"WebColin" wrote in message
...
I have defined a Table format, including setting the text for
"Whole
Table"
to a specific font. But the text in the tables of that Style are
still in
the same font as the Normal style. This seems to be true both for
preexisting tables and new tables I create with that table style.

Of course I can manually set the font in the table or define
another
text
style and apply that to the individual rows of text, but that's not
supposed
to be necessary. Considering the number of tables and the size of
the
document, I really don't want to have manually set the text in each
table.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Colin

Word 2003, Windows XP all Office and OS SP's installed