It is not a particularly bright plan to base all text styles on normal.

By default the text in a table is from the normal style; however, you can
apply any text style to the text in a table, just like any other text. e.g.
create a style called 'table body text' based on 'no style' and with 10
points of whatever font you like and apply it to the table.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org





Marko Pinteric wrote:
Hello Word Experts!

I hope you will find some time to help this Word amateur with his
problem.

I am trying to make a template for my company, as I have (perhaps
rather naive) belief that this will all of us save some time. With
LaTeX, in which I have some expertise, styling is difficult, but has
fabulous results, in word styling is buggy and often does not provide
options you want to change.

Well, we do a lot of tables and text in tables should be 10 points
only. However, it is impossible to do that, in table style all sizes
but 10 points work. I have searched www and did find some references
to this problem, but no real solution. The only solution suggested
was to make Normal style 10 points, but of course such solution
results in total
mess with ALL OTHER STYLES (which are, of course, also based on
Normal). So this is - as I see it - out of the question. There is
also another thing I have noted and which is not documented on www.
If I wish to do vertical AND horizontal alignment of text in tables,
normal style text should be left aligned. In my case we use
justified alignment, so my alignments specified in the table style
are simply ignored by Word!

You guys are the very last straw in my pursuit. Should I give up and
conclude that Word styling is crap and let my coworkers and myself
continue writing dirty documents (with 200+ ad hoc styles!) Or is
there a light in the end of the tunnel?

Thank you for your answers and best regards,

Marko


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