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I use table styles a great deal. I don't use auto text because I don't
create tables, I edit or format them. Usually no two tables are a like when
it comes to the number of columns and rows, column widths. and column
alignment.
When they were first introduced, I quickly abandoned tables styles when I
found that I could not have one column aligned on the decimal point without
affecting the alignment of other columns and that the table font could not
be made smaller than Normal (that may have changed--a lot of people fussed
about it and refused to use table styles because of it). Instead I created
paragraph styles for tables and manually applied setting to each one. Most of
the formatters I've met do the same thing.
About 10 months ago I read a book by Stephanie Krieger who recommended most
of the methods I now use with table styles. The very next week I amazed
myself with how quickly I got through about 20 tables from three different
proposals, four different excel files, and from various Word files where the
writers had gone wild with the colors and fonts. I had more time to look
at content issues in the tables. My client was also pleased. I carry with
me on my thumb drive a simple table style along with my editing add-on
templates. But usually I create a custom table style with the rest of the
template for a job.


Stefan Blom wrote:
I guess I'm saying that since table styles are there (you cannot get rid of
them since each table has one applied) you might as well apply the settings
that make sense (such as borders and shading) and leave the ones that don't
(paragraph and font formatting) to paragraph styles. Personally I don't work
them like that, however. Instead, I make use of AutoText if I need many
tables in a document, and I use paragraph styles to format cell contents
(see also the article at
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html).

That's not the way I use table styles.
Why bother with table styles at all, if you have to apply paragraph styles
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And, of course, the approach can be successfully combined with the
AutoText approach that I described in a previous message.

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