Re: what method to use to get "space after" a table

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Yes Brian Table Grid uses Table Normal Style that is a default system style-
any new tables you create will follow the format you set with that.

If that works for your purposes having every new table with this Table
Normal Style great.

I use base Table Grid (modified for all my default tables) which resides in
Normal.dot or Normal.dotx but keep it very basic as tables are used in 1000s
of documents in many different ways every day and not all documents require
the exact same table layout (borders being one of them)- tables can be very
complex with merged cells and some rows have 1 column, some rows have 3
columns and so on - so the method of duplicating a row with format by moving
to the table marker outside the row end and pressing return is the quickest
way to duplicate a row for a user to add new information in the appropriate
table row format.

Glad you resolved your problem.

"Brian Murphy" <bmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Table styles are something I've never paid any attention to before, so
I don't really understand them.

I'm not sure, but I think all my tables are using a style called
"Table Grid". I suppose this is one of Word's default built in
styles.

It looks the contents of each individual table cell also get to be
assigned a paragraph style. I'm not sure how the style for the table,
and the style for the cell, work together to produce the final
result. I'll worry about that later.

Anyway, I just tried the following:

Selected the entire last row of one of my tables.
Did "modify style" for the "Table Grid" style.
Set "no border" for the last row only.

It works! All the tables throughout the document now have their last
row with no borders.

If I go to the last cell of each table and press Tab, an empty row is
added in the usual way, and is identical the row above it, but it has
no borders. So I can delete my empty paragraph after my table.

Unless I run into problems, this is going to be my approach to doing
tables from now on.

Cheers,

Brian



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