Font size in Cell Body style will not change

[KJKurth]

I have a "Cell Body" style and I'm trying to globally change the font size. I
modified the style and it now (correctly) shows that it's 10pt Times New
Roman; however, the Cell Body text in the tables is actually 11pt. I've tried
using Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+Spacebar to remove any manual paragraph or character
formatting and have repeatedly applied the style - all to no avail. My style
still insists it's 10pt and the text stubbornly remains 11pt.

By the way, this is a legacy doc in Word 2003 that's been worked on by
several people so I don't know what's been done to it.

Please help before I'm forced to manually reformat all my tables!

Thank you.

 

[Klaus Linke]

I have a "Cell Body" style and I'm trying to globally change the font size.
I
modified the style and it now (correctly) shows that it's 10pt Times New
Roman; however, the Cell Body text in the tables is actually 11pt. I've
tried
using Ctrl+Q and Ctrl+Spacebar to remove any manual paragraph or character
formatting and have repeatedly applied the style - all to no avail. My
style
still insists it's 10pt and the text stubbornly remains 11pt.

By the way, this is a legacy doc in Word 2003 that's been worked on by
several people so I don't know what's been done to it.

Please help before I'm forced to manually reformat all my tables!

A guess: Your "Normal" paragraph style is 11 pt?
If you modify the "Normal" paragraph style to be 10 pt, does it work then?

Of course even if it works, modifying the Normal style may well mess up
other things, so it may not be a viable solution for you.
IIRC, it's a bug -- so you'll have to work around it somehow, maybe by
applying a paragraph style, or character style, or manual formatting of 10
pt on top of the table style.

Yuck...

Regards,
Klaus

 

[KJKurth]

You're right - yuck.

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try.

 

[Nina]

Hi KJ,

"Cell Body" may be inheriting its attributes from "Normal." To check this
(assuming are are currently using Word 2003), click on the Styles and
Formatting icon on the Formatting toolbar (the double A's). A window should
appear listing all the styles in your document. Find "Cell Body." When you
rest your cursor over "Cell Body" you will see a "down arrow" to the right.
Click on it and choose "Modify..." from its pull-down menu. Then, make sure
that "Style based on" is "(no style)," and Font Size is 10 pt. Once you do
this, you may need to re-apply the formatting but you should not have any
issues with the font size changing on you in the future.

Let me know if you have any questions in doing this.

 

[KJKurth]

Hi, Nina -

That's a good suggestion. Unfortunately, I'd already tried that before
posting to this list - it didn't help.

Kathy

 

[Nina]

Well, that's certainly a frustrating problem, then! Sorry I couldn't help.