The question that would be answered by seeing a sample is - are you using the same terminology of 'frame', 'table' and 'style' that Microsoft use.

We see a wide range of people from all over the world on this forum and never know how good their command of English is, let alone their alignment with the same terminology that other users might have. Since this was your first post on the forum, we have no previous interactions to see how you might use words.

If your terminology is aligned with mine I would have thought that the answer was bleedingly obvious. The content didn't have a frame around it, you applied a style and that same content suddenly gains a frame. Surely this would suggest that the STYLE you applied has a frame setting included with it. If you apply the same style to a paragraph NOT in a table, does it also gain a frame?

Have you looked at the style definitions to confirm this is the case? Modify style > Format Frame > Remove Frame would be the most obvious thing to check.

If this is not the actual problem then you and I would appear to be using the term 'frame' to mean different things.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia