Word 2003, Windows XP

We have some large technical documents that had previously been created
and/or edited by a combination of people who sortof knew what they were
doing, and people who didnt (hopefully Im in the former group), so there
are numerous Styles with odd names, and LOTS of manual formatting. Im in
the process of developing and implementing a set of consistent Styles to use
on the documents.

Im importing and applying the new Styles, wiping out the manual formatting,
and deleting the old, oddball styles. Im using Table Styles to do things
like set the internal and external borders, setting the spacing between
cells, and centering/not centering the whole table.

As Im cleaning things up, I apply the Table Styles to the table, and
font/paragraph Styles to the text within. Ill go along to later parts of
the document, and when I finally wipe out all instances of an oddball Style,
I delete it using the €œStyles and Formatting€� pane. Later Im looking
through the document and notice that the tables now have applied as a Table
Style, a style that isnt necessarily a Table Style, and typically has no
relation to the Styles Ive applied to the text.

What am I doing wrong?
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Loretta