Table styles

[sarah1234]

In making a new table style, I'm having issues finding out where to define
the header row font in a customer colour to match our custom colour
headings... Can anyone help?

 

[Stefan Blom]

In the Modify Style dialog box of the table style, for "Apply formatting
to," choose "Header row." Click the Format button, and then click Font.
Choose the desired "Font color." Click OK twice. Finally, close the Modify
Style dialog box to return to the document.

Note that since table styles can be unpredictable (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html), you may find it
easier to apply paragraph styles to cell contents rather than specifying the
font within the table style.

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[sarah1234]

Does this mean I should leave the Table Style font as Normal, or specify it
to match the body text eg Rpt Body Text? Currently it's set as Rpt Table
which is exactly the same as Rpt Body Text without the indent.

Would changing the Style Definition of Normal to what I want the font to be
in the table be feasible, or does changing 'Normal' lead to all sorts of
problems?

And thanks for guessing I'm on Word 2003... I forgot to include it again of
course!

 

[Stefan Blom]

I'd leave the font of the table style unchanged, yes.

And since the Normal style is the parent (based-on) style for many other
styles in Word, you should make sure not to change anything that you do not
want to be inherited by other styles. In practice, this means that you
shouldn't change that much... For more, see the "To change the default font"
section of the article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm.

But any other *paragraph* style, built-in or custom, can be modified and
then applied to the (relevant) paragraph(s) in table cells.

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