Thanks, Suzanne. You're probably right that the table may have been sitting
on a Subtitle paragraph when it was created. (I hadn't thought of that & will
be more careful in future!)

However, I think I may have discovered the real reason (... just had a
Eureka! moment ... )

It's all to do with lingering a 'Table Grid' Table Style that was applied in
the document beforehand. I dabbled with so-called Table Styles until my hair
went grey, then switched to macros for formatting tables. Now, when I create
a new table it's always based on the Table Style 'Table Normal' which is the
closest I can get to creating an absolutely unformatted table, and then the
macro adds borders, shading & regular paragraph Styles called Table Heading,
Table Body etc.

The mad reformatting into Blue + Small Caps happens SOMETIMES when the Table
Style 'Table Grid' is deleted (but only sometimes ... perhaps, as you
suggest, when the table was inadvertently built on a Subtitle paragraph), and
the cure is to apply Table Autoformat Table Normal, then run the formatting
macro again.

Note: Mad reformatting also happens on Table Grid tables if you copy styles
from the new template into old documents using the Organizer.

Are we having fun yet?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

When you first create a table, the text in the table is in the style active
at the insertion point, so if the table was created in a Subtitle paragraph,
all the text in the table would be in Subtitle style. If you had not
actually changed the paragraph style but had just changed the formatting (or
applied a table style), then I could see that the text might revert to this
style. But I don't see how the proximity of the Subtitle paragraph would
affect the table if the paragraphs in the table were formatted with a
different style (unless it was based on Subtitle).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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