Style used in table inherits an indent -- from what?

[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

I'm using a style called Table Cell, which has 0 indent, in a table using the
"Table Grid 1" table style. Its built-in paragraph style has 0 indent. My
Normal style and almost all other styles have 0 indent. But when I use Table
Cell in this table, it has a 1" indent. I think an ancestor of this template
had a 1" indent on Normal, but I can't find anything in this template that
has it. Can anyone tell me where the indent could come from? When I highlight
the cells and remove the indent from the paragraphs, the style is shown as
"Table Cell +".

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

FYI, I got rid of the problem (but still don't understand it). I created a
"neutral" table using Table > Insert. It doesn't have any hidden formatting.

I'm using a style called Table Cell, which has 0 indent, in a table using the
"Table Grid 1" table style. Its built-in paragraph style has 0 indent. My
Normal style and almost all other styles have 0 indent. But when I use Table
Cell in this table, it has a 1" indent. I think an ancestor of this template
had a 1" indent on Normal, but I can't find anything in this template that
has it. Can anyone tell me where the indent could come from? When I highlight
the cells and remove the indent from the paragraphs, the style is shown as
"Table Cell +".

--
Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

I need to amend my second posting. A table created by Table > Insert does
have the built-in indent. What I did worked when I imported the text from the
first table. Those were the paragraphs from which I had removed the indent.
When pasted into the new table, they didn't get the indent back, but starting
fresh in the new table still gives me the indent, so my question remains.

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

It now sounds like the indent is in the table style. If you have
customizations you want to keep, you'll have to modify the style: Click
format button in the table modify style dialog > paragraph and adjust the
indents to 0.

Otherwise, delete Table Grid. Word will delete the style from the document
(that is it will no longer be in use) and return the style to its "factory"
settings. Another option in W2003 is to apply the Table Normal style and in
W2007 to clear the table style, which applies Table Normal.

Pam

 

[christophercbrewster via OfficeKB.com]

Your second suggestion led me to the real solution. There was a table style
called (I think) Table Indent. When I deleted it, the tables started behaving
normally. I would suspect myself of having created that table style, but I
don't know how to create table styles, so I don't know where it came from.
Could a paragraph style that I used in a table have made Word make a new
table style?

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Christopher Brewster
Lockheed Martin, Eagan MN

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[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

No. Paragraph styles, even those we make to use only with tables, are just
paragraph styles. But if you got the document or the template it is based on
from someone else, the table style may have come from there. And if all new
tables had that stable style, it must have been set as the default.

Pam