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consistent looking tables across your document. You can also create
your own table formats and save them as another AutoFormat option.
To apply an AutoFormat, place the cursor anywhere in the table and
select Table > AutoFormat. This opens the dialog box shown in
Figure 281.
Select from the list on the left the Format most suitable for your table
and click OK to apply it. Clicking the More button opens another
section of the dialog box where you can rename the selected table
format scheme as well as decide which parts of the predefined
formatting you want to apply to your table. You can selectively apply
the number format, the font, the alignment, the border, or the pattern.
Figure 281: The table AutoFormat dialog
To create your own AutoFormat, proceed as follows:
1) Create a table and manually format it as you wish, including
borders, spacing of text from the top and bottom borders, fonts to
be used in the table heading and data cells, and background
colors.
2) Position the cursor anywhere in the table and then click Table >
AutoFormat.
3) On the AutoFormat dialog box (Figure 281), click Add and give
the table format a name in the Add AutoFormat dialog box and
click OK.
4) The newly named AutoFormat now appears as an available
format. Click OK to close the AutoFormat dialog box.
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