The Shift key is particularly useful when styling a table: as soon as you reach the point in the table at which all remaining cells are to be tagged as your table body style, for instance, you can hold down Shift and click on your table body style, and eXtyles will tag the rest of the table automatically!

Please note the following special information about styling tables with the eXtyles palette (as opposed to the regular Word Paragraph Style menu):

• When styling tables, empty cells are skipped.

Using the eXtyles cleanup feature to add non-breaking spaces to all empty table cells ensures that all table cells are correctly styled

• eXtyles preserves any of the following format information that was previously applied to each cell by an author:
  • Alignment (left, right, center, justify)
  • Indents (first line, left, right)
  • Tab stops

All of this information is respected during an eXtyles CALS or XHTML export.

• If the entire content of a cell is already in italic, bold, or underline, eXtyles will preserve this markup.
• If a paragraph style for a table cell specifies italic, bold, or underline markup, it will be applied to the entire content of the cell.

Simple Tables

The following simple table shows the correct location of each style:

Table 1. This is a table title. It may be located within the table grid or outside of it.

[The Table Headnote appears in brackets, following the Table Title.]

*Table Footnote text. Any symbol, number can be used (or, no symbol/number).

Complex Tables

Paragraph styles can be used to add specific formatting to table content. Your configuration’s list style can be applied to an individual table cell that contains a list using the Shift + Control shortcut; or to an individual list paragraph within a cell using the Control shortcut.

For tables that contain row headers mid-table, the table column head style should be applied, rather than table body (see the following example).