In Word 2000, there is an option to select your preferred Table AutoFormat
as the default (and don't ask me how you get to that option because it
turned out to be rather abstruse), but unless there is a built-in AutoFormat
that has light-blue borders (and I don't think there is), this won't help
you much. In Word 2002 you can actually create your own table styles and
select one as the default.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)

I would like to set a default for Table borders to light blue.  I can do
that one-by-one through border formatting.  Can I make it a default?  Using
Word 2000 on one machine and Word 2002 on another.

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