I'm not that familiar with table styles, but apparently they pick up
formatting from the Normal style if that style has been modified (see
for example
http://groups.google.se/group/micros...57e89780657952).

What happens if you change the Normal style to the formatting you want
for the table? Does that fix the problem?

Of course, this means that any text currently using Normal would be
formatted in the wrong manner. A workaround for this (in turn) is to
apply a different style, formatted the way you like it.

This is certainly an unintuitive way of doing things, but I guess it
could be worth trying. Do the test on a copy of the document just in
case!

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Sverre Medalen" wrote in message
...

Stefan,

Thanks for your quick replay.

I did some more tests. This time I paid more attention to which style
the
Character style was applied to. My experience was the following:
- When Character style is applied to a Paragraph style type, removing
the
Character style made the text go back to the initial formatting of
the
Paragraph style.
- When Character style is applied to text in a table (of the style
Table
Grid),
removing the Character style made the text go back to its initial
colour,
but
the font-family changed to Arial (from Times New Roman) and text
size
changed to 11pt (from 10pt).

Does this make more sence? Should I use another style than Table Grid
inside
tables to avoid this problem in tables?

Stefan Blom skrev:

Are you sure that the underlying paragraph style is correctly
formatted?
If so, it should suffice to select the text and press Ctrl+SpaceBar
to
reset its font formatting.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Sverre Medalen" wrote in message
...
In my document I want to emphasize text for evaluation that other
persons
shall find easily. Thereafter I want to be able to easily remove
the
emphasize so that the text regains its initial formatting.

To solve this, I've made a style of type Character and changed its
colour to
red. I marked som text (in Times New Roman, 10pt, black) with that
character
style. The text changed from black to red, while keeping the
font-family and
size of the Paragraph style, as expected.
Thereafter I deleted the Character style to see if the marked text
regained
its initial format. The text colour went back to black, but the
font-family
and size became Arial and 11pt respectively. How can I get Word to
give a
text marked with a Character style the style of its Paragraph
style
when I
delete the Character style?

Regards,
Sverre