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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue
font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
Can you successfully modify the Table Grid style in another document? If so,
you could then use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, Organizer button) to copy it to the document where you are unable to modify it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
Yes, I was able to create the style in another document, but for some reason,
when I used Organizer to copy it over to my template, it resets the header color to black. I also tried to copy the style from the new document into my source document, but it resets the color to gray (not black, though). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Can you successfully modify the Table Grid style in another document? If so, you could then use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, Organizer button) to copy it to the document where you are unable to modify it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
If you *reapply* the copied table style to the relevant table(s), does that
make a difference? You can use Ctrl+Alt+U to clear the formatting and then just apply the style again. Also, if you are referring to the text color, as opposed to the cell shading, note that table styles are a bit tricky with respect to those settings, as explained at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html. :-( Applying the desired paragraph style to the text should work better. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... Yes, I was able to create the style in another document, but for some reason, when I used Organizer to copy it over to my template, it resets the header color to black. I also tried to copy the style from the new document into my source document, but it resets the color to gray (not black, though). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Can you successfully modify the Table Grid style in another document? If so, you could then use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, Organizer button) to copy it to the document where you are unable to modify it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
Also, have you modified the color of the "Normal" paragraph styles?
The "Normal" paragraph style is applied to all table cells. Unfortunately, if you've modified some property of the Normal style, that will be applied in the table style too... You can't define that property in the table style any more. So, if you use table styles, it's best to leave the Normal paragraph style untouched from its default. Regards, Klaus |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
No, I didn't change the Normal paragraph style, but I thought this might be
where it's picking up the black/Auto text setting. Thanks for the info! "Klaus Linke" wrote: Also, have you modified the color of the "Normal" paragraph styles? The "Normal" paragraph style is applied to all table cells. Unfortunately, if you've modified some property of the Normal style, that will be applied in the table style too... You can't define that property in the table style any more. So, if you use table styles, it's best to leave the Normal paragraph style untouched from its default. Regards, Klaus |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
Reapplying the table style doesn't work, either, unfortunately. Thanks for
the article - this is helpful, and now I know I'm not crazy. I think we'll just go with the table style and accept the black text. Thanks for all your help! "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you *reapply* the copied table style to the relevant table(s), does that make a difference? You can use Ctrl+Alt+U to clear the formatting and then just apply the style again. Also, if you are referring to the text color, as opposed to the cell shading, note that table styles are a bit tricky with respect to those settings, as explained at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html. :-( Applying the desired paragraph style to the text should work better. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... Yes, I was able to create the style in another document, but for some reason, when I used Organizer to copy it over to my template, it resets the header color to black. I also tried to copy the style from the new document into my source document, but it resets the color to gray (not black, though). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Can you successfully modify the Table Grid style in another document? If so, you could then use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, Organizer button) to copy it to the document where you are unable to modify it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
Thank you for the feedback.
Note that you can save an example table, formatted the way you want it, as an AutoText entry and then insert the AutoText whenever you want that particular formatting. By using AutoText entries, you avoid the problems with table styles but, of course, unless you want to try macros there is no way to automatically update the formatting of existing tables inserted as AutoTexts. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... Reapplying the table style doesn't work, either, unfortunately. Thanks for the article - this is helpful, and now I know I'm not crazy. I think we'll just go with the table style and accept the black text. Thanks for all your help! "Stefan Blom" wrote: If you *reapply* the copied table style to the relevant table(s), does that make a difference? You can use Ctrl+Alt+U to clear the formatting and then just apply the style again. Also, if you are referring to the text color, as opposed to the cell shading, note that table styles are a bit tricky with respect to those settings, as explained at http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html. :-( Applying the desired paragraph style to the text should work better. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... Yes, I was able to create the style in another document, but for some reason, when I used Organizer to copy it over to my template, it resets the header color to black. I also tried to copy the style from the new document into my source document, but it resets the color to gray (not black, though). "Stefan Blom" wrote: Can you successfully modify the Table Grid style in another document? If so, you could then use the Organizer (Tools | Templates and Add-Ins, Organizer button) to copy it to the document where you are unable to modify it. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "C1ER" wrote in message ... I created a table style based on Table Grid (Word 2003 SP3). I applied a blue font color to the header row. I also set the font, font size, and bold for the header row. These settings are applied, but the header row color will not change no matter what I set the color to - it resets it to black every time. How can I get my style to accept blue for the header row color? Please help. TIA! |
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Font color won't change in header row of my Table style
One trick to getting & keeping stable tables is to avoid setting font
characteristics in a table style. Use paragraph styles instead. Many technical documents have lots of tables that are quite different from each other and that require a lot of manual formatting. Table styles are great for quickly formatting them. But table style text settings tend to override manual formatting and paragraph styles. (Or the conflicting setting confuse Word.) Your best bet is to start fresh. Clear all formatting and then apply the unmodified table grid style. Create a new table style that is based on table grid and that does not have text formatting specified (font, size, color, horizontal alignment, etc.). Create your table paragraph styles. Three is often enough: table heading, table text, and table bullet. Now apply your new table style and table text paragraph style to the whole table, then apply the table heading and bullet styles appropriately. HTH, PamC C1ER wrote: Reapplying the table style doesn't work, either, unfortunately. Thanks for the article - this is helpful, and now I know I'm not crazy. I think we'll just go with the table style and accept the black text. Thanks for all your help! If you *reapply* the copied table style to the relevant table(s), does that make a difference? You can use Ctrl+Alt+U to clear the formatting and then [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] help. TIA! -- Message posted via OfficeKB.com http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.a...ables/200807/1 |
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