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Using Clear formatting on a table applies Heading 3
I'm at my wits end with tables in Word 2003. I tried formatting my own table
styles but gave up. Now I use Table Normal plus paragraph styles called Table Heading, Table Body and Table Body Small. The problem is that stray formatting just suddenly appears out of nowhere. To fix it I run macros that clear all formatting but that just makes it worse. WHY on EARTH would a cell suddenly become tagged with Heading 3? |
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Have you made sure to disable "Define styles based on my formatting" and
"Automatic headings"? -- 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. "Aelfgifu" wrote in message ... I'm at my wits end with tables in Word 2003. I tried formatting my own table styles but gave up. Now I use Table Normal plus paragraph styles called Table Heading, Table Body and Table Body Small. The problem is that stray formatting just suddenly appears out of nowhere. To fix it I run macros that clear all formatting but that just makes it worse. WHY on EARTH would a cell suddenly become tagged with Heading 3? |
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Yes, thank you for that advice. I found your MVP website article on that
topic after I posted this one. I'm not sure (yet) if it entirely fixed the problem, but Word behaved much better after switching all that stuff off. Do you think having this switched on would cause things like tables mysteriously assuming the style of the previous paragraph? I had a style called Subtitle (defined as dark blue, small caps, centred) immediately above two tables in a document. Closed the document and reopened it and ALL text in ALL tables in the doc had become dark blue, small caps and centred, even the ones that were nowhere near a Subtitle paragraph. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you made sure to disable "Define styles based on my formatting" and "Automatic headings"? -- 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. |
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When you first create a table, the text in the table is in the style active
at the insertion point, so if the table was created in a Subtitle paragraph, all the text in the table would be in Subtitle style. If you had not actually changed the paragraph style but had just changed the formatting (or applied a table style), then I could see that the text might revert to this style. But I don't see how the proximity of the Subtitle paragraph would affect the table if the paragraphs in the table were formatted with a different style (unless it was based on Subtitle). -- 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. "Aelfgifu" wrote in message news Yes, thank you for that advice. I found your MVP website article on that topic after I posted this one. I'm not sure (yet) if it entirely fixed the problem, but Word behaved much better after switching all that stuff off. Do you think having this switched on would cause things like tables mysteriously assuming the style of the previous paragraph? I had a style called Subtitle (defined as dark blue, small caps, centred) immediately above two tables in a document. Closed the document and reopened it and ALL text in ALL tables in the doc had become dark blue, small caps and centred, even the ones that were nowhere near a Subtitle paragraph. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you made sure to disable "Define styles based on my formatting" and "Automatic headings"? -- 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. |
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Thanks, Suzanne. You're probably right that the table may have been sitting
on a Subtitle paragraph when it was created. (I hadn't thought of that & will be more careful in future!) However, I think I may have discovered the real reason (... just had a Eureka! moment ... ) It's all to do with lingering a 'Table Grid' Table Style that was applied in the document beforehand. I dabbled with so-called Table Styles until my hair went grey, then switched to macros for formatting tables. Now, when I create a new table it's always based on the Table Style 'Table Normal' which is the closest I can get to creating an absolutely unformatted table, and then the macro adds borders, shading & regular paragraph Styles called Table Heading, Table Body etc. The mad reformatting into Blue + Small Caps happens SOMETIMES when the Table Style 'Table Grid' is deleted (but only sometimes ... perhaps, as you suggest, when the table was inadvertently built on a Subtitle paragraph), and the cure is to apply Table Autoformat Table Normal, then run the formatting macro again. Note: Mad reformatting also happens on Table Grid tables if you copy styles from the new template into old documents using the Organizer. Are we having fun yet? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: When you first create a table, the text in the table is in the style active at the insertion point, so if the table was created in a Subtitle paragraph, all the text in the table would be in Subtitle style. If you had not actually changed the paragraph style but had just changed the formatting (or applied a table style), then I could see that the text might revert to this style. But I don't see how the proximity of the Subtitle paragraph would affect the table if the paragraphs in the table were formatted with a different style (unless it was based on Subtitle). -- 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. |
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