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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:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/ms-word-normal-body-style-reverts-to-times-new/adfbc8e6-b159-4b9b-9a07-ec2794256865
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...
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
Thanks for the follow-up. Maybe my previous responses could have been clearer. As you have found, the document defaults must match the settings of a specific style: the Normal style. Once you have done that, you can modify other styles and apply them to text inside table cells, and Word will honor the format settings of these styles.
When you select Set as Default in the Font dialog box, Word modifies both the Normal style and the document defaults in one go.
