[PamC]

Table styles work well for setting the grid, inside cell margins, banding,
identifying the heading row, table alignment, etc. Create a custom table
style based on Table Grid (the simplest of the styles, I think, and a
modifiable clone of Table
Normal--which apparently cannot be modified) with the attributes you want.

Avoid setting font attributes in a table style, though. You and other users
will just end up fighting with it later. I create custom paragraph styles
for tables (table heading, table text, and table bullets 1 & 2 usually
suffice.)

When modifying the tables,
- Select the whole table.
- Apply Table Grid style to clear of any table style that may have been
applied.
- Apply your custom table style.
- Deselect the table, select the heading row, and apply the table heading
style.

(as few as 6 clicks of the mouse)

If the existing tables are have simple content and are all of the same
type, you could easily make a macro to do this. If they are not, doing this
by hand allows you to, from the Table Design tab, turn heading rows, banding,
and other attributes on or off per individual table.

This method can greatly reduce the time it takes to reformat tables--even
though you still may have to go back and fix the fix bullet lists.

PamC






"eMan" wrote:

In Word 2007, I would like to apply the same attributes to all pre-
existing tables in a document (dozens and dozens). The attributes a

Critical: paragraph (or text) style, table-indent from left, first
row, first colum, banded rows, banded columns, last row, last column,
allow row to break across pages, repeat header rows, total row.

Other properties are optional. I've seen some of the macro options
listed for Word 2000, but that sort of thing looks a little tough for
this situation, and I think the AutoText options are inapplicable.

Since I have so many existing tables with different indents, shading
and other variations, I'm afraid that the only thing I can do is
recreate every one of them, which would not be easy, since there a
variety of numbers of rows/columns, auto-fit settings, and other
properties.

Does anyone know of a way to avoid this work. TIA.