Hi Cindy,

So in this game of rocks/paper/scissors, paragraph styles beat table styles.
But at the same time, even if you don't have applied a paragraph style, the
"Normal" paragraph style is always applied implicitly.

In this case, I don't envy the poor guy/gal that had to find a work-around for
the table style's paragraph and font formatting to show at all...

The real mistake in design, from my POV, is not being able to
assign paragraph styles to parts of a table.

Looks about the same from he Paragraph and font formatting shouldn't have
been dealt with directly in table styles at all.
They should only specify borders and shading, cell padding, possibly column
widths, space before/after... *and* paragraph styles.

Thank you for the really interesting insights!
Klaus




"Cindy M -WordMVP-" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Hi Klaus,

In my book, it's a bug that wasn't caught in time and now we are stuck with
it.
Who in his/her right mind would design it that way?

Actually, it WAS designed this way - I had a long discussion with the MS
people
during Word 2002 Beta 1 on the hierarchy of the new styles. I'm not saying I
agree with it, necessarily, but consider this scenario:

A Table Style doesn't let you link different parts to specific paragraph
styles.
So, say you want to use formatting in certain parts of the table that's not
supported by the Table Style concept. You can apply any paragraph style to the
table to override the Table Style.

Surely, we'd be getting complaints if paragraph styles were NOT able to
override
Table Styles. The real mistake in design, from my POV, is not being able to
assign paragraph styles to parts of a table. But heh, all anyone was ever
asking
for before this was "personalized Table AutoFormat". Really. And that's
exactly
what we got! Only, now that we have it, we're not satisfied...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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