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Introducing Tables 6
FIGURE 6.5
Excel offers many different table styles.
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If applying table styles isn’t working, it’s probably because the range was already formatted
before you converted it to a table. Table formatting doesn’t override normal formatting. To
clear the existing background fill colors, select the entire table and choose Home ➪ Font ➪ Fill Color ➪ No
Fill. To clear the existing font colors, choose Home ➪ Font ➪ Font Color ➪ Automatic. After you issue these
commands, the table styles should work as expected.
If you’d like to create a custom table style, choose Table Tools ➪ Design ➪ Table Styles ➪ New Table Style
to display the New Table Quick Style dialog box shown in Figure 6.6. You can customize any or all of the
13 table elements. Select an element from the list, click Format, and specify the formatting for that element.
When you’re finished, give the new style a name and click OK. Your custom table style will appear in the
Table Styles gallery in the Custom category. Unfortunately, custom table styles are available only in the
workbook in which they were created.
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