The Style List: Add, Duplicate, Rename, Delete, Export

The style list, in the left panel, shows every custom table style in the open file by name. Selecting a style loads it into the center editing panel and the preview.

Adding a new style

Click Add to create a new, completely blank style, pre-filled with the name "New Style". Add always starts from a blank style, regardless of what's currently selected in the list - it never clones an existing one (that's what Duplicate is for).

Duplicating a style

Click Duplicate (or right-click a style and choose Duplicate) to clone the selected style, including all of its formatting, pre-filled with the name "Copy of {original name}". This is the starting point for a common workflow: duplicate an existing style, then use Replace color… to swap out its accent color everywhere at once - for example, cloning "Red Theme" into "Blue Theme" and replacing the accent color in one step instead of re-editing every scope by hand.

Renaming and deleting

Right-click a style, or select it and use the toolbar buttons, for Rename and Delete. Both require a style to be selected. For PowerPoint files, deleting a style that's actually applied to a table on a slide shows a warning telling you how many slides use it, and asks you to confirm before deleting.

Every new or duplicated style gets a fresh, unique internal ID - renaming never changes which tables it's applied to.

Replacing a color everywhere it's used

Right-click a style and choose Replace color… to see every distinct color used anywhere in that style (across Fill, Borders, and Font) and pick a replacement for each one. Colors you leave alone don't change. This is the fast way to re-theme a style without hunting through every scope individually.

Exporting and importing styles

Export… and Import… save a style to, or load one from, a portable .ksstyle file that works across Word, PowerPoint, and Excel - and across files with different themes. See Portable syle files (.ksstyle) for the full explanation.

Setting a style as the default

See Setting a default style for how newly-inserted tables pick up a style automatically.

Why a style might not appear in the list

This app automatically hides Word's built-in table style gallery entries when they're not in use, so a template with no custom styles of its own doesn't suddenly show Word's ~246 stock styles. This match happens by name.

In a rare edge case, a table style you create directly in Word itself (not through this app) can get caught by that same check if it happens to have the exact same name as one of Word's built-in styles (for example, naming a custom style "Colorful Grid"). If that style is also currently unused and isn't your document's default table style, it won't appear here.

This never affects styles created through this app itself. If a style you made in Word seems to be missing, either rename it to something that doesn't match a built-in Word table style name, or apply it to at least one table (or set it as the default) so it's no longer considered unused.