Make sure you test by creating a new table in the current document AND a new table in a new document. Check that your table defaults have been set.Click OK again to return to your document. You can now set the two options to what you want and then click OK. This will return you to the Modify Styles dialog.It will be familiar to you since it's the same dialog that we used earlier in the lesson to stop rows breaking across pages, and to set the first row to repeat at the top of each page in the table: The Table Properties dialog will be displayed.banding - this is covered in our lesson Set banding colors in Word 2010 table styles: Note the other options you can set for your table, e.g. Next, click the Format button and choose Table Properties as shown here.This will ensure that any changes we make here will be applied to all tables from now on. Change this to " New documents based on this template". The option " Only this document" is selected.This is what we want for this example, but you can experiment with the options here to format different parts of the table in different ways. The option to Apply formatting to is set to Whole Table.A couple of things to note in the picture above:.This will display the following dialog box:.Instead of choosing the Set as Default option as shown above, right-click on the first button on the toolbar and choose Modify Table Style instead:.The following steps allow you control everything about your default table settings.
It may be that you want more control over how the defaults are set for your tables. Make your row settings the default for all future tables (more options)
Change the option to All documents based on the Normal template, and then click OK>Īt this point, you have now changed the table settings to match the settings of the current table you should test it with a new document to ensure that the settings have indeed been set as the default.You will then see the following dialog box:.Next, right-click on the first button on the toolbar and choose Set as Default:.We are going to focus on the defaults for the first style shown. Notice that there are a number of different table styles available to you.The ribbon toolbar should change to look like the following: First, click somewhere in one of your tables.
In this section, we'll look at how to make these settings the defaults. Whilst the techniques described are useful, it's a nuisance to have to set these options every time you create a new table in a document. Make your row settings the default for all future tables (the quick way) Simply right-click in the row inside the table that you want to stop from splitting across pages and follow the steps above.