Paste Table Formats

I tried this before, and it didn't appear to work. I created a table,
formatted the first two rows as heading rows, and then applied a Table
AutoFormat that included special formatting for the heading row. Only the
first row got the formatting. I then selected the second row to see if it
was still formatted as a heading row and found Table | Heading Rows Repeat
dimmed. Moreover, it is not checked for the first row, either. What?!

Apparently applying the AutoFormat removes user-applied heading formatting
and just formats the top row as a heading row (with no guarantee that it
will repeat). When I reselected the two top rows and rechecked Heading Rows
Repeat, the heading row formatting *was* applied to both. What I hadn't
counted on was that applying the AutoFormat would wipe out my specific
settings.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Christian Nein" wrote in message
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1) I select the rows to be reapeated as heading cells
2) From the menu "Table | Heading Rows Repeat"
3) - Selected rows get the heading row format

Christian

"Suzanne S. Barnhill"
Same here.


"Christian Nein"
Maybe it depends on the version. I am using Office 2003 SP2.
Christian

"Suzanne S. Barnhill"
I'm interested in that because I found that when I tagged the second
row
of
a table as a heading row, it did *not* inherit the "header row"
format.
I tried several different ways and never could get it to work.

"Christian Nein" wrote in message
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I tagged the second row of my test table as heading row. After that,
the row actually inherited the "Header row" format. But this does
not
work with heading columns because there is no way to tag a column
as a heading. I afraid this means that table styles will not solve
my
problem. Any other ideas that could help me solve my problem?

"Stefan Blom" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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I avoid table styles too, but my guess is that a *heading* row in a
table style simply means the *first* row.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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I really have no experience or expertise with table styles (see
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/tablestyles/index.html for some
reasons many
people avoid them), but it would appear that if you want more
than
one
heading row, you'll have to format them manually. Tagging an
extra
row as a
heading doesn't seem to change the formatting.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Christian Nein" wrote in message
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Hi Suzanne,

thanks a lot for that great hint. I didn't know about table
styles
before.
They work fine except one problem: Sometimes, I have more than
one
heading
row or colunm and I didn't find a way to extend the format form
the first
heading row or column to a 2nd, 3rd, etc. Is there a way to
"tell"
the
table
style, how many heading rows and colums the table contains? Or
can
I flag
rows or columns as headers?

Regards
Christian


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" schrieb im
Newsbeitrag
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This would be a reasonable use of a table style.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Christian Nein" wrote in message
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Hi,

I made some settings to a Word table: background color
(Shading.BackgroundPatternColor), borders (Borders.LineStyle
/.LineWidth),
etc. After that, I have tried to paste the formats to a
second
table
using
the FormatPainter. Unfortunately, the mentioned format
settings
werde
not
pasted while other settings (e.g. alignment, font) where
pasted
correctly.
Does anybody know how I can paste the mentioned formats to
another
table?

Thanks in advance & best regards
Christian