Just got Word 2003 (coming from Word 2000) and was thrilled to see the
new styles for lists and tables. That thrilling feeling quickly turned
to frustration when I can't for the life of me get it to work.

Is there a good, thorough tutorial for getting up to speed on this? The
options seem obvious, but it flat-out isn't working for me.

For example:

I have a simple two column table, no header/footer rows. I select my
format for "whole table". No problem. I then change the format for the
leftmost colunm to be bolded. Click okay. Apply it to my table. No bold.

What other magical mystical bit of alchemy is needed? I click the bold
button, it should show bold text.

Additionally: is there any way to specify the line spacing from within
the table, or do I rely on the underlying paragraph style?

--cd