Re: AutoText tables with unwanted auto borders

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Sol:

It sounds as though you have a Table Style applied?

I never use them: they're Toxic. One you have applied one, they're also
hard to get rid of, and they override other formatting.

In a default template, if you apply the Table Normal style, that should get
rid of the table style for you. If you have customised your Table Normal
style, you need to painstakingly set all of its properties back to "None" or
"Off" or whatever. The Table Normal style needs to be blank in every
respect, otherwise you can't use it to get rid of unwanted table formatting,
and you need to do this.

Edit>Clear Formats doesn't get rid of Table styles.

Hope this helps


On 3/6/05 6:11 AM, in article BEC5268D.2B1C%Sol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Sol Apache"
<Sol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Beth
> Thanks for looking into this for me. I am using OSX.4 (Tiger) and Office
> 2004.
> No, the borders aren¹t greyed out (ie the text boundaries) they are black
> borders .75 whatever thick.
>
> The borders are greyed out when I create the autotext, when I call the
> autotext up for a new table, the black border automatically appears, ie real
> black lines.
>
>
>
>
> On 2/6/05 19:47, in article BEC4A23C.16FAF%bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> "Beth Rosengard" <bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just tried to repro this. I created the table, shaded it yellow and chose
>> Borders> None. When I click OK, the regular black borders change to a light
>> grey, which is how Word does this. The light grey borders don't print
>> though, which you'll see by going to Print Preview. When I make the
>> AutoText entry, the yellow table with light grey borders is entered and is
>> identical to the original from which I created the entry.
>>
>> Is it the light grey borders which you object to or are the borders changing
>> to black when you use the Autotext entry?
>>
>> What version of Word are you using?
>

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