In article <ea85c79e-f502-48fa-b404-e988257d4c27
@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, emsennett@gmail.com says...

You can define ne or more table styles that give the appearance you
want, then apply them to the various tables. There are some limitations
to what table styles can do, however.

Table styles work well for setting the grid, inside cell margins, banding,
identifying  the heading row,  table alignment, etc.  Create a custom table
style based on Table Grid (the simplest of the styles, I think, and a
modifiable clone of Table
Normal--which apparently cannot be modified) with the attributes you want.

Avoid setting font attributes in a table style, though.  You and other users
will just end up fighting with it later.  I create custom paragraph styles
for tables (table heading, table text,  and table bullets 1 & 2 usually
suffice.)  

When modifying the tables,
- Select the whole table.
- Apply Table Grid style to  clear of any  table style that may have been
applied.
- Apply  your custom table style.
- Deselect the table, select the heading row, and apply the  table heading
style.  

(as few as 6 clicks of the mouse)

If  the existing tables are have simple content and are all of the same
type, you could easily  make a macro to do this.  If they are not, doing this
by hand allows you to, from the Table Design tab, turn heading rows, banding,
and other attributes on or off per individual table.  

This method can greatly reduce the time it takes to reformat tables--even
though you still may have to go back and fix the fix bullet lists.

PamC