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oiverson
Brass Contributor
May 05, 2022

Applying a Style to text in a table doesn't use Style font.

EDIT: I've reposted this in a simpler post. This thread was getting a little confusing and the problem is very simple.     I'm trying to apply a Style that uses Times New Roman as the font to tex...
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    oiverson
    May 11, 2022

    Ah HA!

    I think the part that was left out, was that to have Styles work in tables, you need to make sure that both your "Normal" Style font and your document "Default" font match.

    So whatever your "Normal" style is using, you need to go into your Default style and make sure that font is the same font.

    In my case, our office Normal style has been switched to Arial. But when I looked at my Defaults, it was set to Times New Roman (I thought I was supposed to match the Default to the Style I wanted to use which was Times New Roman).

     

    I found this solution here:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/ms-word-normal-body-style-reverts-to-times-new/adfbc8e6-b159-4b9b-9a07-ec2794256865

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Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP
MVP
May 07, 2022

oiverson Add the Style to the Styles Gallery and then, after applying the desired font to the text, select the text and right click on the Style in the Styles Gallery and then on Update [Style Name] to Match Selection.

 

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    oiverson
    Brass Contributor
    May 10, 2022

    Doug - When you do this, and you then set the "OR" row in the table to be that "Instructional Italics..." style, the "OR" font DOES change for you?

    It does not on my document (the one I uploaded). Again, the Style looks like it has all the correct settings, and selecting text that I pasted in from a different (but working) document and then using that to right-click and "Update" as you say doesn't change anything.

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