[Terry Farrell]

I agree: it should be straightforward and not convoluted. A table style
should encompass all style parameters used in the table: font, paragraph,
alignment, language, borders and cell boundaries. Any changes made to the
formatting should be considered Direct Formatting and removable using Ctrl+Q
and/or Ctrl+Spacebar. There should not be any confusion with any other
style. If you apply a new Theme to the document, it should only affect the
table IF a different table style is included as part of the theme.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Good point, but I think it could be even more straightforward. Why not
have table styles apply fonts correctly no matter the settings of the
Normal style and the Manage Styles dialog box?

By the way, have you tested if table styles now work better with
*paragraph* styles applied to text in the cells (another issue that Shauna
discusses in her article)?

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote in message
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If the document's body font and line spacing are set in the manage styles

set defaults tab and if the normal paragraph style is not modified,
table
style fonts work as expected. That's pretty straightforward.

And note that to take advantage of document themes and style sets, you
also
need to leave the normal paragraph style unmodified (empty).

Pam



Stefan Blom wrote:
Although it may work better, it is still confusing, and I see no reason
why
font formatting in table cells couldn't be more straightforward.

When you specify settings in the normal style (font, line spacing,
etc.),
normal may not change when you change the theme or the style set, both
of
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under the Set Defaults tab in the Manage Styles dialogue. I read
somewhere that this would solve problems like this. But apparently not.

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