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Applying a Style to text in a table doesn't use Style font.
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:
Is this Word for Windows? In that case, use the Font dialog box to Modify the document default font. Press Ctrl+Shift+F to display the Font dialog box, choose the desired font and click Set as Default. Choose the "This document only" option and click OK.
Once you have done that, you can modify the font of the paragraph style (if necessary) and it should display properly in the table.
You have to compare the style definition with the document default settings: In the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), click the Manage Styles icon and go to the Set Defaults tab.
Ah, I see.
That also looks fine - are you getting my example doc in the OP to work?
My select Style: ...
And that Styles' Defaults:
Even more curious...
The Style type for SOME Styles was "Paragraph" so I changed them to "Linked (paragraph and character)" and now I can't change them back to "Paragraph". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯But the curious part is that I tried modifying the base Style font to a different (but OpenType) font (ALGERIAN) and that propagates normally as I would expect:
If I modify the base Style to Times New Roman, the top highlighted text updates, but text in the table goes to Arial:
So being in a table doesn't seem to matter, and the text in the table DOES follow font changes, just not for Times New Roman...
