Paragraph Styles not working in InDesign Tables 1

[Chromer]

I have a table for a catalog that makes up the major content of the publication. This table is spread out over 24 pages in threaded containers. It is linked to an external spreadsheet. I linked the excel spreadsheet with no formatting.
In InDesign, I first created the paragraph styles for the text, then Cell styles then the table style. I can verify that the font style is correctly specified in the paragraph styles but when I apply the styles I get incorrect formatting. It seems to pick up some of the formatting, like text color, but the font is always Arial Italics instead of the font I specified no matter how many times I try to edit it. Also the Table is displaying borders I didnt specify. Where did I go wrong?

 

[apepp]

"when I apply the styles I get incorrect formatting"

...ensure you don't have a character style applied, select all cells and ensure "none" is used as a character style, as the paragraph style is controlling the font used...

"Also the Table is displaying borders I didnt specify"

...ensure the cell style doesn't conflict by having a stroke applied in the "stroke and fills" option of the cell style...

andrew

 

[Chromer]

Thanks apepp for your speedy response. Although the problem doesnt seem to be completely solved, your suggestions led me to discover that there were (local?)overrides in place complicating matters. So I spent some time hunting them all down.