Hi Margaret,

You've obviously been more successful with Table Styles than I have :-)

Not really, no :-(

Like you, many times, the kinds of tables I use are too complicated for
table styles anyway. Say, tables in grammar books.
You'd really need cell, row, and column styles for these. Most times, it's
easier to do the formatting with macros (and for some things that are
outside the scope of table styles, such as consistent column widths, you'd
need them anyway).

So often, I tried to do most of the formatting with table styles, and the
rest with macros.

Then, I've had two ugly cases were all tables in a certain table style went
blooey ("corrupted") all of a sudden.
And since I didn't notice it immediately, I had the choice to go back to an
old backup, or redo/reformat all those tables.

In more simple cases, they worked quite well, though. Since you can't avoid
them anyway (each table has a table style), I still try to make them useful.

If you can live with an uncustomized (except for 10pt) Normal paragraph
style, it may be worth checking them out... if you don't mind living
dangerously s.

Regards,
Klaus


Sorry if my posting was over-prescriptive and negative. I really, really
tried not to be a Luddite over Table Styles when they arrived in Word
2002, but in all implementations where I've used them the font and
paragraph formatting in the Table Style seem to have been more trouble
than help and I've had to resort to table formatting macros anyway.
However, fair to say this is fairly complex tech doc formats where tables
can contain different paragraph types, and with the need to support a lot
of "cut and paste" usage.