Thank you, Andrew.

Just to note, since you mentioned it, I have had the problem of table styles overriding custom text formats (styles) as well. The one that comes to mind, and perhpas the only one, is font size. If someone has pasted in a table with a spec of, say 11-pt font, and then formatted it locally to look like my custom table, including applying the custom table text font, my attempt to clear the font format to make it 10 pt holds for about 1/4 second before reverting to 11. This had me quite perplexed the first time I saw it.