Applying Custom Table Styles

Karl E. Peterson · External Since: Jan 11, 2010 Posts: 4

Posting here to insure that I find the answer through Google in
relatively short order. <g> More seriously, I have been googling, and
just can't seem to find the right incantation for this.

I seem to grasp the general concept of creating a new style for tables.
What's perplexing is, once I do so, I can't seem to find a way to
actually *apply* that style to a table. This is in Word 2007.

I think the Quick Style Gallery is supposed to have a Custom section,
right? Not here. At least not always. Is there some way to toggle
this thing on and off?

I can tell the styles have been created, because I can select them from
the Based On dropdown when creating yet more styles.

Thanks... Karl

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Karl E. Peterson · External Since: Jan 11, 2010 Posts: 4

Karl E. Peterson wrote:
> Posting here to insure that I find the answer through Google in relatively
> short order. <g> More seriously, I have been googling, and just can't seem
> to find the right incantation for this.

ARGH!!! Of course. I "solved" it by posting here. <g> (Sort of.)

> I seem to grasp the general concept of creating a new style for tables.
> What's perplexing is, once I do so, I can't seem to find a way to actually
> *apply* that style to a table. This is in Word 2007.
>
> I think the Quick Style Gallery is supposed to have a Custom section, right?
> Not here. At least not always. Is there some way to toggle this thing on
> and off?

Okay, it seems my mistake was in actually attempting to create new
styles, rather than modifying existing ones? In a DOCX where I had
attempted three times to create new styles, and the Custom bar never
showed up, I just now modified an existing style and gave it a new
name. This seems to have forced the creation of that Custom styles
bar, and it now holds all four of my "custom" styles. Is this supposed
to make sense?

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Pamelia Caswell via Offi · External Since: May 19, 2010 Posts: 4

A newly created table style should show up in the custom gallery. I do
vaguely remember, though, that my first few table style did not show up there.
I'm not sure what caused them to consistently show up later.

Pam

Karl E. Peterson wrote:
>> Posting here to insure that I find the answer through Google in relatively
>> short order. <g> More seriously, I have been googling, and just can't seem
>> to find the right incantation for this.
>
>ARGH!!! Of course. I "solved" it by posting here. <g> (Sort of.)
>
>> I seem to grasp the general concept of creating a new style for tables.
>> What's perplexing is, once I do so, I can't seem to find a way to actually
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>> Not here. At least not always. Is there some way to toggle this thing on
>> and off?
>
>Okay, it seems my mistake was in actually attempting to create new
>styles, rather than modifying existing ones? In a DOCX where I had
>attempted three times to create new styles, and the Custom bar never
>showed up, I just now modified an existing style and gave it a new
>name. This seems to have forced the creation of that Custom styles
>bar, and it now holds all four of my "custom" styles. Is this supposed
>to make sense?
>

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Karl E. Peterson · External Since: Jan 11, 2010 Posts: 4

Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com wrote:
> A newly created table style should show up in the custom gallery. I do
> vaguely remember, though, that my first few table style did not show up
> there. I'm not sure what caused them to consistently show up later.

Kind of a frustrating OOBE, huh?

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