Re: AutoText tables with unwanted auto borders

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Well, who knew we had Table Styles? :)


On 6/3/05 5:19 AM, "John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]" wrote:

> 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.
>>
>

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