How does Word apply table styles?

I just had a document that was applying a bullet to all the text in a table
no matter how much I tried to clear the formatting (using Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Space,
choosing the options from the Formatting panel, etc, etc).

When I looked at the Reveal Formatting panel, the table style was somehow
set to Bullet 2 (a user-defined, second level bullet style based on Bullet 1,
in turn based on no style).

When I reapplied Table Normal as the underlying style for all the tables,
the bullets went away. I was just wondering how it got applied as the
underlying style in the first place, especially considering you couldn't pick
it from a list of 'All available table styles'.

It would be useful to know, to try to stop this happening again!

Many thanks,
El

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm.
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"Ellinoz" wrote in message
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I just had a document that was applying a bullet to all the text in a table
no matter how much I tried to clear the formatting (using Ctrl+Q,
Ctrl+Space,
choosing the options from the Formatting panel, etc, etc).

When I looked at the Reveal Formatting panel, the table style was somehow
set to Bullet 2 (a user-defined, second level bullet style based on Bullet
1,
in turn based on no style).

When I reapplied Table Normal as the underlying style for all the tables,
the bullets went away. I was just wondering how it got applied as the
underlying style in the first place, especially considering you couldn't
pick
it from a list of 'All available table styles'.

It would be useful to know, to try to stop this happening again!

Many thanks,
El

Thanks Charles,

I can see how that would be the case had there been a style that was based
on another, and direct formatting had been applied. But the Bullet 2 style
was:

a) Overriding any other style that you attempted to apply to the text and/or
table, and
b) had somehow been ascribed to the 'Table Style', which is something that
seems to sit in the background and something you can't change in the normal
'Modify Style' box

In addition, the style it seemed to have attached itself to was not selected
to Automatically Update.

I wasn't sure what kind of direct formatting, mis-hit shortcut key or
otherwise could do that?

"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eformatted.htm.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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"Ellinoz" wrote in message
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I just had a document that was applying a bullet to all the text in a table
no matter how much I tried to clear the formatting (using Ctrl+Q,
Ctrl+Space,
choosing the options from the Formatting panel, etc, etc).

When I looked at the Reveal Formatting panel, the table style was somehow
set to Bullet 2 (a user-defined, second level bullet style based on Bullet
1,
in turn based on no style).

When I reapplied Table Normal as the underlying style for all the tables,
the bullets went away. I was just wondering how it got applied as the
underlying style in the first place, especially considering you couldn't
pick
it from a list of 'All available table styles'.

It would be useful to know, to try to stop this happening again!

Many thanks,
El

Hi =?Utf-8?B?RWxsaW5veg==?=,

Any chance the cursor was in a paragraph formatted with that style when the
table was created?

I just had a document that was applying a bullet to all the text in a table
no matter how much I tried to clear the formatting (using Ctrl+Q, Ctrl+Space,
choosing the options from the Formatting panel, etc, etc).

When I looked at the Reveal Formatting panel, the table style was somehow
set to Bullet 2 (a user-defined, second level bullet style based on Bullet 1,
in turn based on no style).

When I reapplied Table Normal as the underlying style for all the tables,
the bullets went away. I was just wondering how it got applied as the
underlying style in the first place, especially considering you couldn't pick
it from a list of 'All available table styles'.


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

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