I was referring to my original strategy, although I was doubtful whether such a method was possible. Unfortunately, the merged cells prevent formatting the current tables unless there is a workaround that I have not come across yet. If this way works, then that is all that matters really.

I tried your code yesterday and it worked great on the tables, but it seems to paste over 5-6 lines of text inbetween tables. I am still trying to figure out how your code works, but I'm wondering if this issue has something to do with the following part:
In one affected part I removed an extra line and then ran the code, which removed all remaining text (more than the 5-6 lines) between these 2 tables.
In another part, removing an indent/tab on a line under a table removed 2 more lines than before. I am still playing around with other causes, but hopefully you know more about this cause than I do.

Sure it's possible to reformat tables with merged cells and doing so would obviate all the circumlocution the current approach will require. But, without seeing some representative sample tables (even without data), I don't know what the better course is. Hint...
That's because I took the precaution of inserting extra blank paragraphs in case there were consecutive tables in the document - you wouldn't want them getting joined up. Any redundant empty paragraphs can be cleaned up later.

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Paul Edstein
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That is good to hear! I think a sample might help so I put one together and attached it here. Hopefully it provides what you need.

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