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Default What's the correct way to apply proper styles to Tables?

I am trying to format my documents using styles, but I'm having real trouble
when it comes to tables. I'm not sure I understand how Word's styles apply to
tables. I have set up a table style that makes the top row of my tables
shaded (it's also supposed to bold the top line, although this doesn't always
work). But I want my table text to be smaller - 10 pt instead of 12 pt - and
I usually need different justification, alignment, etc.

Is there no way to set up a table style that takes all this into account? If
not, how do you get around this? Do I need to set up a whole other set of
styles for the fonts, alignments, etc. I use within my tables? Maybe it's
just me, but this seems like an awful lot of styles, not to mention work!!
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Default What's the correct way to apply proper styles to Tables?

As part of the table style, you can set properties independently for each of
the options under the 'Apply formatting to' (whole table, top row, odd
columns, etc). Unless you do a lot of tables that are identically formatted,
this is usually as much specification as you want in advance; beyond that
you generally need to apply paragraph styles to individual paragraphs within
the table.




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I am trying to format my documents using styles, but I'm having real
trouble
when it comes to tables. I'm not sure I understand how Word's styles apply
to
tables. I have set up a table style that makes the top row of my tables
shaded (it's also supposed to bold the top line, although this doesn't
always
work). But I want my table text to be smaller - 10 pt instead of 12 pt -
and
I usually need different justification, alignment, etc.

Is there no way to set up a table style that takes all this into account?
If
not, how do you get around this? Do I need to set up a whole other set of
styles for the fonts, alignments, etc. I use within my tables? Maybe it's
just me, but this seems like an awful lot of styles, not to mention work!!



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