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Suzanne S. Barnhill Suzanne S. Barnhill is offline
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Default spurious paragraph styles appearing in tables

In my (limited) experience, it may mean "Apply a style whose formatting more
or less matches the formatting you've applied." But when I had Footer-style
paragraphs turning up in tables, I *knew* it was not my doing!

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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Good point.

Indeed, "Define styles..." actually means "Apply style more or less at
random." sigh

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Stefan Blom
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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In addition to what Stefan has said, make sure that "Define styles based
on your formatting" is not checked in Tools | AutoCorrect Options |
AutoFormat As You Type.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"HelenaB" wrote in message
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When I open a Word 2003 document the table formatting changes because a
paragraph style has been applied as a table style. This paragraph style
has
not been used to format the text within the table cells, another style
is
used for this. The paragraph style has not been used anywhere in the
document
although it is one of the styles available within the document. The
table
is
formatted with Table Grid.

I can see the spurious style in Reveal Formatting. I can remove the
style
and revert back to the correct table style by pressing Ctrl + Q (Reset
Para).

I have tried removing the spurious paragraph style only for Word to pick
up
another style. This is entirely random.

Could someone tell me why this could be happening.

Thanks
HelenaB