Re: Word 97 and creating table formats

[Richard Yanowitz <ryanowit -at- NYCT -dot- NET>]

If I understand your question correctly, you can create your own
pre-formatted tables and re-use them indefinitely via auto correct.

- Create the table, including any formatting you want in any cells.  (Or,
of course, take an existing table and modify it.)
- Select/highlight the table.
- Choose auto correct from the Tools menu
- Type any code you'll remember even if you don't use it for days or weeks.

When you type this code, followed by many non-alpha-numeric characters
(space or carriage return works fine) in a document, your formatted table
will appear.

For those who haven't exploited auto correct, this is only one of numerous
short-cuts it allows (including insertion of logos).


At 11:31 AM 7/29/98 -0700, Barbara Karst-Sabin wrote:
>Hi, all,
>
>I've been beating my brains out trying to find a way to create tailored
>table formats in Word 97.  They have several "canned" ones to choose
>from which are mainly variations on colors and borders/non-borders.  I
>need something more specific than that to save me time in setting up
>document templates.
>
>Unfortunately, my current employer does not want to go to Framemaker at
>this time, so I'm stuck with Word.  Anybody figured out how to trick the
>darn thing into doing this???
>
>Thanks,
>
>BJ
>
>
>
>
Richard Yanowitz, NYC
ryanowitz -at- bigfoot -dot- com

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