Which table style should I use?

re: Which table style should I use?

vblair70 — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:38:04 GMT

I designed my own for my company that works with our branding and works in a template I designed. None of these would be something I would approve using. Many of the "canned" colors in the themes do not look very good printed in reports to post online or high end printing. Better but not great.

re: Which table style should I use?

CelsoMarin — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 05:37:18 GMT

I do not write in English, so I apologize if it seems rude but I had to use machine translation to communicate with you. I'm trying to make a table style that fulfills a requirement of a very important rule in Brazil (ABNT) and this standard requires that: 1 has top and bottom in thick lines, and a thinner line below the top. (This I did create this style of agreement, that great until later on for reasons I can not see that applying header). 2 When a table exceeds one page, the place where the breach has continued and the table can not be any horizontal line. (I do the fix manually and created a quick table to preserve this property of not having that line the colon, break and continue). I read many articles of the Office, I log into microsoft answers (CelsoMarin), this Blog, read the Help Office, but can not by such properties in a Table Style that I know would be better. I am very glad that I have created a model to do almost anything you HAVE to ABNT, only this detail escaped me until I hope to share this model, I read several articles ex.: Numbers, colors, margins, broken sections, I just read as a numbered equations, everything is going well just this detail table, I did not understand why I created the table as Table Quick preserve this property and table styles do not have to put, or do not know how. And so I was curious to see that the table created as Table Quick kept this property I would be very grateful if you could read my comment and very glad if you can help me. Apologies for not writing in proper English, I'm still in the 3rd month of school. Thanks!

re: Which table style should I use?

Ron Owens — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:14:44 GMT

ShelLuser, very happy to hear you found the post useful.

re: Which table style should I use?

ShelLuser — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:45:13 GMT

Very nice post, thanks for sharing.

This really helped me to get my stuff moved from OpenOffice to MS Office 2010. I've been using tables quite heavily in my documents as a means to list delivered products, hour justifications ('what did I do in the time I was hired') and so on...

I already found the tables option but this pointed me to quite a few extras which I can really put to good use!

Very nice post!

re: Which table style should I use?

Ron Owens — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:09:38 GMT

Yes, styles can be something of substance. Nicely put. The design of a document can influence how information is interpreted and whether or not the document even gets read.

re: Which table style should I use?

PrecioLandia Latinoamérica — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:32:05 GMT

Agreed with Allyson. Sometimes style can be something of substance.

re: Which table style should I use?

Allyson Stewart — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:01:55 GMT

Thanks for the post, Ron! Nice overview of Word's table styles. You're right. Just because we're using tables doesn't mean they have to look boring. Word really saves me time, so I don't have to format each row manually, especially when it comes to alternating the shading of rows.

re: Which table style should I use?

PrecioLandia Latinoamérica — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:50:31 GMT

Nice. Thanks.