Auto Format all tables in a document

Hi All,
I would like to format all tables in a document to a
particular style (top cell shading - grey, paragraph spacing 1 pt, Is there
some way I can automate this or do it with much ease.

Regards,
Arry Potter

For existing tables where no styles are applied I dont see a quick way to do it and I am afraid you have to do it by hand. However, you can make separate styles for all your table attributes (eg Table Heading; Text_in_Table; Bullet_Level-1_in Table"; etc). Do this for one table. You still have to do it by hand for all the other tables, but then you can assign the appropriate style to the texts in the table, depending on its function. This is quicker than repeat every formatting manually, ensures consistency through-out and makes it a one step operation should you desire to change the style later.
HTH -- Henk
PS: Assuming you have table captions with a caption style assigned, set this caption to "keep with next". This ensures that the caption is always on top of the table and avoids an ugly page break between caption and table.

Originally Posted by Arry Potter

Hi All,
I would like to format all tables in a document to a
particular style (top cell shading - grey, paragraph spacing 1 pt, Is there
some way I can automate this or do it with much ease.

Regards,
Arry Potter

You'd better ask in a programming newsgroup, such as
microsoft.public.word.vba.general, for assistance with this.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


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Hi All,
I would like to format all tables in a document to a
particular style (top cell shading - grey, paragraph spacing 1 pt, Is
there
some way I can automate this or do it with much ease.

Regards,
Arry Potter