Table Formatting Problem - Is there something I am missing

[Andibevan]

Hi All,

I have a large document that contains a number of tables. Sometimes, when I
make formatting changes to the document ( I can't be more specific as I
can't see any pattern) particularly in tables I messes up the formatting of
all the other tables in the doc.

Is there something I am missing that will stop this happening? Or is there
some way to lock the formatting of tables?

Any help or advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Andi

 

[Guest]

Not sure if this will work but worth a try. When in the table go to Format /
Styles and formatting and check that Automatically Update is not checked.

Check out:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm .

This was left for me for another problem but it may also work for you. Good
luck

 

[Andibevan]

Thanks Yvonne - both your suggestions look very helpful.

Just to confirm your suggestion - I am using Word 2003 - I selected all the
text in the table and then went to Format > Styles and Formatting > I then
see that the formatting is style "Table Grid" so I right click on the "table
grid" style and select modify. The tick box "automatically update" is then
greyed out and cannot be selected.

Is this what you meant

TIA

Andi