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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
I have tried to create a new table style, modifying an existing autoformat
style to my specifications, but it will not accept my font size changes. I don't WANT 12 point font in my tables, but every time I try to change font size to 10, the program fails to accept the new number. The font size drop-down is available, but apparently not working. I need to either A) Solve the sizing problem or B) Find a different way to create a table style. (Need something robust and "idiot-proof" to roll-out to a user set with varying skills.) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Have you selected the whole table when changing the point size? At the top
left above the table there is a small square with a four-pointed arrow inside it. Click on this and it will select the whole table, then change your point size. Does this work? -- Rae Drysdale "Melody" wrote: I have tried to create a new table style, modifying an existing autoformat style to my specifications, but it will not accept my font size changes. I don't WANT 12 point font in my tables, but every time I try to change font size to 10, the program fails to accept the new number. The font size drop-down is available, but apparently not working. I need to either A) Solve the sizing problem or B) Find a different way to create a table style. (Need something robust and "idiot-proof" to roll-out to a user set with varying skills.) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Hi ?B?TWVsb2R5?=,
I have tried to create a new table style, modifying an existing autoformat style to my specifications, but it will not accept my font size changes. I don't WANT 12 point font in my tables, but every time I try to change font size to 10, the program fails to accept the new number. The font size drop-down is available, but apparently not working. I need to either A) Solve the sizing problem or B) Find a different way to create a table style. (Need something robust and "idiot-proof" to roll-out to a user set with varying skills.) Which font are you trying to use this with? Table styles don't seem to accept Arial 10... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Gee....that's not very useful....I use Ariel 10 point for my tables.
"Knock knock knock....Hellooooo Microsoft? Have you noticed how LARGE 12-point Ariel type is? I just want to get information across in my tables, not beat my readers over the head with it!!! How about fixing the glitch in Word that prevents me from setting up a table autoformat with 10-point Ariel...." "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote: Hi ?B?TWVsb2R5?=, I have tried to create a new table style, modifying an existing autoformat style to my specifications, but it will not accept my font size changes. I don't WANT 12 point font in my tables, but every time I try to change font size to 10, the program fails to accept the new number. The font size drop-down is available, but apparently not working. I need to either A) Solve the sizing problem or B) Find a different way to create a table style. (Need something robust and "idiot-proof" to roll-out to a user set with varying skills.) Which font are you trying to use this with? Table styles don't seem to accept Arial 10... Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Hi ?B?TWVsb2R5?=,
Gee....that's not very useful....I use Ariel 10 point for my tables. "Knock knock knock....Hellooooo Microsoft? Have you noticed how LARGE 12-point Ariel type is? I just want to get information across in my tables, not beat my readers over the head with it!!! How about fixing the glitch in Word that prevents me from setting up a table autoformat with 10-point Ariel...." Yeah, I've reported it across two sets of beta, and it never has gotten fixed. I suspect it's something so deep down that changing it breaks a lot of other things... How about Arial 10.5 or 9.5? Or Verdana instead of Arial? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Is this part of the same bug that doesn't allow you to set the font in a
table style if Normal has been changed from 12-pt TNR? (Or whatever it is--I never can seem to remember what the exact bug is since I don't even attempt to use table styles.) -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000bede.009178a9@speedy... Hi ?B?TWVsb2R5?=, Gee....that's not very useful....I use Ariel 10 point for my tables. "Knock knock knock....Hellooooo Microsoft? Have you noticed how LARGE 12-point Ariel type is? I just want to get information across in my tables, not beat my readers over the head with it!!! How about fixing the glitch in Word that prevents me from setting up a table autoformat with 10-point Ariel...." Yeah, I've reported it across two sets of beta, and it never has gotten fixed. I suspect it's something so deep down that changing it breaks a lot of other things... How about Arial 10.5 or 9.5? Or Verdana instead of Arial? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Hi Suzanne,
Is this part of the same bug that doesn't allow you to set the font in a table style if Normal has been changed from 12-pt TNR? (Or whatever it is--I never can seem to remember what the exact bug is since I don't even attempt to use table styles.) No, at least it's not directly related. You literally cannot choose "10" from the font list, in the "Style" dialog box, when Arial is selected. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
Whoa! That really IS bizarre!
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote in message news:VA.0000beff.0099dd96@speedy... Hi Suzanne, Is this part of the same bug that doesn't allow you to set the font in a table style if Normal has been changed from 12-pt TNR? (Or whatever it is--I never can seem to remember what the exact bug is since I don't even attempt to use table styles.) No, at least it's not directly related. You literally cannot choose "10" from the font list, in the "Style" dialog box, when Arial is selected. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
My experience with Word 2003 is that I can select Arial 10 but it doesn't
stay selected - the box is empty a moment later. I could select it for the header row only, and the number stayed in the box, but it had no effect. I'm glad to know it is Microsoft bug and not a MyPersonalBrain bug - Jessica |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
"Jessica" wrote: My experience with Word 2003 is that I can select Arial 10 but it doesn't stay selected - the box is empty a moment later. I could select it for the header row only, and the number stayed in the box, but it had no effect. I'm glad to know it is Microsoft bug and not a MyPersonalBrain bug - Jessica |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
FWIW I have experienced the same issue with Word Mac 2004. I had changed the
Normal font to Garamond 12. Try as I might, I was unable to create a table style using Myriad Web 10 as the table font. It always ended up being Garamond 12. In the style creation dialog, a 10-pt font size wasn't even on offer. The only solution that worked was to re-designate TNR as the Normal font and then PRESTO! everything worked. I was able to create a table style based on Myriad Web 10-pt as the font. If you still want to use a font other than TNR you can then do as I did, and make Garamond the font for Body Text. PS I'm not an "expert" user but have long hours of frustrated experience trying - often unsuccessfully - to tame Word to make it do what I want. It's not always obvious. "Jessica" wrote: My experience with Word 2003 is that I can select Arial 10 but it doesn't stay selected - the box is empty a moment later. I could select it for the header row only, and the number stayed in the box, but it had no effect. I'm glad to know it is Microsoft bug and not a MyPersonalBrain bug - Jessica |
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Can I create a new table style based on a table in a document?
The workaround is this: In W2002 and 2003 and presumably W2004, do not set
any font properties in the table style. Use paragraph styles to format table text instead. Pam kaeup wrote: FWIW I have experienced the same issue with Word Mac 2004. I had changed the Normal font to Garamond 12. Try as I might, I was unable to create a table style using Myriad Web 10 as the table font. It always ended up being Garamond 12. In the style creation dialog, a 10-pt font size wasn't even on offer. The only solution that worked was to re-designate TNR as the Normal font and then PRESTO! everything worked. I was able to create a table style based on Myriad Web 10-pt as the font. If you still want to use a font other than TNR you can then do as I did, and make Garamond the font for Body Text. PS I'm not an "expert" user but have long hours of frustrated experience trying - often unsuccessfully - to tame Word to make it do what I want. It's not always obvious. My experience with Word 2003 is that I can select Arial 10 but it doesn't stay selected - the box is empty a moment later. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] - Jessica -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ables/200912/1 |
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