As the title says - I have a document with perhaps a dozen sheets and want to use a table style I created and saved in other documents. How do I get the style into the existing document I'd like to change?
(A template with the desired style already exists - but starting a new document from a template and then transferring every sheet will be time consuming and isn't a really great solution.)
Mac mini (2018)
I think you misunderstood what Badunit said. Copy the whole table "as a table", not its content.
Select a table but make sure no cell in it is selected, by clicking in its top-left corner donut. Then copy, switch document and paste. It will appear exactly as it is in the source document. Then you can create a new style from it.
I think you misunderstood what Badunit said. Copy the whole table "as a table", not its content.
Select a table but make sure no cell in it is selected, by clicking in its top-left corner donut. Then copy, switch document and paste. It will appear exactly as it is in the source document. Then you can create a new style from it.
Copy/paste a table that has that table style into the new document. Create a table style from that table.
Unfortunately table styles are saved within the document - so styles saved in one document don't appear in a different document. It would be great - and REALLY convenient - if they transferred between documents like other Numbers preferences etc., maybe Apple will change this behavior some day.
Sadly, this just pasts the table into whatever the default table style is in the new document (plain gray for me). You're right though - this should be supported.
I've never done this.
I looked at the table formatter:
When I click the left or right arrow I see this:
I bet if you have a table selected, then "+" will add the table format. Then when you choose that format on an existing table, it will apply the format.
Yes - thank you. I thought that was what I had been doing, but apparently not. This works just fine.
How to Copy a Numbers Table Style from One Document to Another (pre-existing) document.
