Apple Numbers '09 - Manual (Page 115)

Chapter 5 Working with Table Styles 115
To learn how to Go to
Save the formatting you apply to a table as a new
table style “Creating New Table Styles” on page 116
Change the name of a table style “Renaming a Table Style” on page 117
Remove a table style from a spreadsheet “Deleting a Table Style” on page 117
Applying Table Styles
After applying a table style to a table, you can change any of the formatting defined
by the style. Such a change is called an override. If you later assign a different style to
the table, you can keep or remove any overrides you created.
Here are ways to apply a table style:
To replace a table’s existing style and remove any overrides, click the arrow to the right
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of the style you want to apply and then choose Clear and Apply Style.
You can also choose Format > Reapply Table Style.
To replace a table’s existing style but keep any overrides, select the table and then click
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the name of a style in the Styles pane at the left of the window. You can also select
a table, click the arrow to the right of the style you want to apply, and then choose
Apply Style.
You can also drag a style name from the Styles pane to a table. The table doesn’t need
to be selected in this case.
To replace the style of all tables in a sheet but keep any overrides, drag a style name
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from the Styles pane to a sheet icon in the Sheets pane.
Modifying Table Style Attributes
You can change a table’s appearance by modifying the attributes of the table’s style.
Here are ways to modify table style attributes:
To change the background color of a table, header cells, or body cells, select the table
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or cells and click the Fill well in the format bar.
You can use the Cell Background controls in the Table inspector to make more
extensive changes to the selection. “Filling Objects with Colors or Images” on page 225
provides instructions for these controls.
To change the opacity of the background, use the Opacity controls in the Graphic
inspector. See “Adjusting Opacity” on page 224 for instructions.
To change the stroke and color of table cell borders, follow the instructions in
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“Formatting Table Cell Borders” on page 87.
To format text in one or more cells, select the cells.
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