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Steve Hudson wrote:
> > Its taken me 4 hours, but ....
Andrew Plato wrote:
> Why not just format a table the exact way you want it and then copy/paste
> it as needed throughout your document? That would take far less than 4
> hours and acheive the same results.
Yeah, what he said. The AutoText feature is handy for
this task if it is required in multiple documents. Store
it as a toolbar button if you like.
On a related matter, I've never understood why Microsoft
Wad doesn't allow saving custom table formats under its
on-the-verge-of-being-almost-not-useless Table AutoFormat
function, but then who are we to question the Will of the
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