Special Edition Using® Microsoft® Office Word 2003

Using Table Styles

Word's table styles feature makes it easier to reuse complex table formats after you've created them. Conceptually, table styles are similar to other Word styles: They allow you to store a set of formats and reapply them all at once. Table styles can incorporate

• Borders and shading

• Font, font size, font attributes, and font color

• Alignment of text or images within each cell

• Paragraph formatting, such as indents

• Table properties, such as alignment of the entire table, text wrapping, and whether rows can break between pages

• Whether stripes will appear in row or column bands

• Tab settings within table cells

Word provides dozens of sets of built-in table styles through the Table AutoFormat dialog box. These are covered in the following ...