Alignment in tables

I just created a table in Word 2002. I haven't done it
before using this version. All the text I insert aligns to
the right, whatever alignment I try to impose using table
properties or cell properties. Is this a bug or am I doing
something stupid?

As elsewhere in Word, in tables horizontal alignment is a paragraph
formatting property usually set in styles. Check the style definition.

Also, you can get this kind of behavior if the paragraph formatting has a
decimal tab at (or past) the right margin.

http://addbalance.com/usersguide/tables.htm for more on tables. (You may
want to download the Word 2002 chapter.)
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Graham" wrote in message
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I just created a table in Word 2002. I haven't done it
before using this version. All the text I insert aligns to
the right, whatever alignment I try to impose using table
properties or cell properties. Is this a bug or am I doing
something stupid?