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What's the correct way to apply proper styles to Tables?
I am trying to format my documents using styles, but I'm having real trouble
when it comes to tables. I'm not sure I understand how Word's styles apply to tables. I have set up a table style that makes the top row of my tables shaded (it's also supposed to bold the top line, although this doesn't always work). But I want my table text to be smaller - 10 pt instead of 12 pt - and I usually need different justification, alignment, etc. Is there no way to set up a table style that takes all this into account? If not, how do you get around this? Do I need to set up a whole other set of styles for the fonts, alignments, etc. I use within my tables? Maybe it's just me, but this seems like an awful lot of styles, not to mention work!! |
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What's the correct way to apply proper styles to Tables?
As part of the table style, you can set properties independently for each of
the options under the 'Apply formatting to' (whole table, top row, odd columns, etc). Unless you do a lot of tables that are identically formatted, this is usually as much specification as you want in advance; beyond that you generally need to apply paragraph styles to individual paragraphs within the table. "Jen" wrote in message ... I am trying to format my documents using styles, but I'm having real trouble when it comes to tables. I'm not sure I understand how Word's styles apply to tables. I have set up a table style that makes the top row of my tables shaded (it's also supposed to bold the top line, although this doesn't always work). But I want my table text to be smaller - 10 pt instead of 12 pt - and I usually need different justification, alignment, etc. Is there no way to set up a table style that takes all this into account? If not, how do you get around this? Do I need to set up a whole other set of styles for the fonts, alignments, etc. I use within my tables? Maybe it's just me, but this seems like an awful lot of styles, not to mention work!! |
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