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PaulMoloney
Copper Contributor
Dec 05, 2024

Can't apply font from table style to table

I've set up a table styles, but when I apply it to a table, the font characteristics (for example, white color in the header row) aren't applied.  This seems to be because the rows in the table have...
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Charles_Kenyon
Bronze Contributor
Dec 06, 2024

Try using Automatic Color rather than white and see what happens. I am assuming that there is colored shading applied to that row. The purpose of Automatic is to change between dark and light depending on the background.

Table styles seem to take their formatting from the default style used in the document.

My starting style in new documents is Body Text and the table styles take off from there.

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I do not have an answer to your direct question, as you probably figured out.

You could also create custom paragraph styles and apply them within a table.

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For more depth, look into Theme Colors under the Design tab.

  1. [Quick] Style Sets and Word Themes in Microsoft Word
  2. Shading (ie background colour) in table styles
  3. Background and foreground: Shading in paragraph styles

 

You may want to ask your question in the Word Tables Forum. https://www.msofficeforums.com/word-tables/ 

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