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Word 2007 table styles - do they work ?
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I'd like to use "table styles" to apply a set of table-related properties to tables in my documents. So I have carefully formatted a sample table in my document and defined a new table style based on it. However when I try to apply that table style to another table I have many properties that are not carried over, such as the column width, table positioning, etc... It seems that I can manually edit my table style to setup those values but this is a tedious and error prone approach. Is there any way to make sure that a table style actually encapsulates ALL the properties ? Any help / pointer welcome Thanks --alexT |
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Unlike paragraph styles and contrary to the dialog title, new table styles do
not pick up the formatting of the table the cursor is in. Instead, you must select the settings from the create/modify table dialog. Most settings available to tables are available to table styles. Two that aren't are table width and column width. Table styles are great if you have a variety tables, particularly if they are already created, that you want to give the same general look to. But if you have a particular table structure-- the same number of columns with set column widths, same table headings and spanner headings, etc., that you want to be able to fill in--then saving that structure as auto text might be the better way to go. HTH, PamC AlexT. wrote: Folks I'd like to use "table styles" to apply a set of table-related properties to tables in my documents. So I have carefully formatted a sample table in my document and defined a new table style based on it. However when I try to apply that table style to another table I have many properties that are not carried over, such as the column width, table positioning, etc... It seems that I can manually edit my table style to setup those values but this is a tedious and error prone approach. Is there any way to make sure that a table style actually encapsulates ALL the properties ? Any help / pointer welcome Thanks --alexT -- Message posted via http://www.officekb.com |
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On Jan 16, 8:12*am, "PamC via OfficeKB.com" u43222@uwe wrote:
Unlike paragraph styles and contrary to the dialog title, new table styles do not pick up the formatting of the table the cursor is in. *Instead, you must select the settings from the *create/modify table dialog. * Most settings available to tables are available to table styles. *Two that aren't are table width and column width. * Thanks for your input - appreciated ! Toot bad that the table "metrics" can not be part of the style. Regards --alexT |
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