This should make the vertical rule separating the first column from the second column disappear, but it doesn’t. Then set the first column to have no rule on the right. As an example, set the Whole table to have internal vertical rules. Subsequent parts can’t always override the XML of earlier parts. But we can fix this with an OOXML hack (see below). All borders switch to the last selected color. It’s almost impossible to set one color for vertical borders and a different one for horizontal borders. The interface for setting border styles is pretty bad. The dropdown should update to the color currently in use for the table part that has been selected. In the table style dialog, color dropdowns remain set at the color last chosen, even if that was for a different table part. It is no longer necessary to apply text styles to the table, you can simply turn the Table Design>Table Style Options on and off to affect the related table area. You’ll know you got it right when you insert a table in the new style and it automatically has the correct styling for header row, first column and the other table style options. Set the defaults to the same values as Normal style: same font, size, color and paragraph settings.Click on the Manage Style button at the bottom.With the document or template open in Word, click on the Styles pane dialog opener below the Quick Styles gallery, or press Alt + Ctrl + Shift + s at the same time.(Thanks to MVP Stefan Blom for this tip.) Here’s how to do this: The trick here is to set the document text defaults to the same values as the revised Normal style. Table styles can still work as designed if you are using Word for Windows (sorry, Mac people). Better to format all text as Body Text style and give that style the custom color and line spacing.īut what if you’re given a template that already has a non-standard Normal, and the client asks for a table style? All is not lost. This is one of the reasons why Word experts recommend that Normal style should stay as is and not be actually used in a document unless the default formatting matches the needs of the design. Microsoft doesn’t publish any of this information. If you add 12pt after, the table text will jump from being vertically centered to having 12 pt after, a huge difference. If you change the Normal line spacing to a larger or smaller value, text that is nominally vertically centered will actually sit higher or lower in the cell. Centered vertical spacing then works as expected. In a table style, this gets automatically reinterpreted as Single with 0 before and after. As I write, Word 365’s default Normal style has a Line spacing of Multiple at 1.08 with Space After of 8 points. You then have to apply new paragraph styles to the table parts after creating the table.Īnother weird result of the dependency on Normal is that Word expects to have the default line spacing for your version of Word. The text will remain the color set for Normal. If Normal has been set to any color other than Automatic, applying different text colors to different table parts will have no effect. One oddity is that table text is based on the Normal style in relationship to Word’s Default Text settings. There are some oddities about Word table styles, and a few bugs. Choose the style, OK out, then choose Modify Table Style to see a corrected preview.) (Current versions of Word for Mac have a display bug whereby choosing a different table style does not update the preview in the dialog. If you originally chose Grid Table 5 Dark, then set Style based on to the same style name. When you choose Table Design>Table Styles>New Table Style, Word sets the Style based on dropdown to Table Normal, not the style you chose. By contrast, starting with Modify Table Style lumps your style in with all the Microsoft defaults. This ensures that your table style will appear in a new Custom row right at the top of the styles gallery. Next, expand the table style gallery dropdown again and select New Table Style at the bottom. Switch the style to a Microsoft default that already has similar features. It doesn’t include any of those options, and adding them back in is difficult. If your final table style requires design options like a distinctive first column or a total Row, Table Grid is a poor place to start. By default, a new table will use the Table Grid style, which is very plain. The first step in creating a custom table style is to insert a table, so the Table Design tab appears. Here’s how to get the best possible results. To get a Word table style to work closer to the way it should, you may have to hack the OOXML. The Word utility has quirks and bugs, and Word tables don’t work the same way as PowerPoint’s. You might think this makes life a lot easier, but you would be wrong. Unlike PowerPoint, Microsoft Word has a utlity to create custom Word table styles.
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