The buttons on the Object (or other customized name where your table styles are located) palette tab are used as follows.

• Table Title: Table number and table title.
• Table Head: Table head cells at the top of columns within the Word table.
• Table Body: Table body cells.
• Table Footnote: Table footnotes. This style also includes paragraphs, such as table legends, that fall after the table body and span the width of the table but are not cited from within the table as a table footnote.

The following table shows the correct location of each style:

For ease of table styling and to ensure that all paragraphs in the document are properly tagged, Inera recommends that table footnotes be placed after the table (i.e., outside of the table grid), as in the previous example, although this is not a requirement.

Applying Table Styles

eXtyles normally applies the selected style to a whole row of cells at once. To apply the selected style otherwise, use the modifier keys as indicated in the following table while pressing the relevant button on the palette:

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 Paragraph Styling 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, decimal)

  • 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.

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.