Format table text

Easily format table text, paragraph and cell styles.
Table header,  body and footer styles  are handled separately if required.
Up to 6 custom styles can be created and saved, with a built-in editor to easily update the saved styles.
The saved style selected here can also be applied from the 'Format tables' tab.

NOTE: Not only the text styles. TableMate saves all of the following:

You need to save some text styles first. (It's EASY!!!)

  1. Initial Setup - Saving styles

When you first start TableMate, all six text styles are set to the default of Arial size 11 font, and are named 'Style 1', 'Style 2', ... 'Style 6'.
So you need to save some useful custom style formats from your own tables.

This is how you do it...

To save a new table text style, you first need a table in a Google Doc with the formats you want. This table should have at least three rows if you want different header, body and footer styles. ( 'Body' style means any style that is not in the top or bottom rows of the table.) You can use any existing table, or create a new one - just a little table with one column and three rows is fine. 

(NOTE: To get started, you can copy table format styles from the 'Table font templates' Google doc I created. Just click on the button to get a copy of the templates.) 

Then click to select one body cell of the table that has the formats you want:

In the TableMate 'Format table text' tab, select one of the six available style names to save your new style into:

Click 'Edit this style' to display the style editor.
You may enter a new name for this style in the edit box if you want, then click the SAVE button to save your new style:

Now the preview will display the new style formats:

(NOTE: If you add more fonts to Google Docs using the 'More fonts' feature, these may not display properly in the TableMate preview window. However, they will still format correctly in your Google Doc.)

After saving some useful styles, you can now apply them to your tables:

2. Applying text styles

(a) Select the style you want to apply from the list in the 'Format table text' tab.

(b) Choose required settings. ('Auto adjust column widths' is recommended if text size will be changed by the new format.)
If 'header style' or 'footer style' are not selected, then the 'body' format will be applied to the top/bottom rows of the table.
Blue bars near the preview window remind you which styles are selected.

(c) Select one or more tables in your Google Doc that you want to apply the style to.

(d) Click OK  (See the example below)

NOTE: Auto column width adjustment is not always 100% accurate. (It can't be!) So some final 'tweaking' of column widths may be required.