Save a table as a new style

If you customize the appearance of a table and want to apply the same formatting to other tables, you can create a new table style. The new style is saved along with the styles that come with the theme.

Keynote creates the new table style based on the most frequently style for some attributes, such as cell fill and border style. For example, if your table uses many different fonts, the new table style adopts the font that appears the most often the table.

Save a table as a new style

  1. Select the table with the formatting you want to save.

  2. Click the Table tab at the top of the sidebar on the right.

    If you don’t see a sidebar, or the sidebar doesn’t have a Table tab, click Format button in the toolbar.

  3. Click the arrow on the right of the table styles to navigate to the last group of styles.

  4. Click New Style button to add your style.

The new table style is added to the last group of styles. You can organize these styles however you like, and replace them.

Organize styles in the Table Styles list

You can rearrange styles to move the ones that you use most often to the front.

  1. Click and hold the style you want to move until the style flashes.

  2. Drag the style to a new location.

    To move a style from one pane to another, drag it over a navigation arrow to open the next pane, then drag it to where you want it.

Delete a style from the Table Styles list

  • Control-click the style, then choose Delete Style.

Replace table styles

To quickly change the appearance of tables that use the same style, you can redefine the style.

  1. Select one of the tables that uses the style you want to update, then modify its appearance so that it looks the way you want.

  2. Select the table you just modified (if you deselected it).

  3. Click the Table tab at the top of the sidebar on the right.

    If you don’t see a sidebar, or the sidebar doesn’t have a Table tab, click Format button in the toolbar.

  4. At the top of the sidebar, control-click the style, then choose Redefine Style from Selection.

  5. Choose one of the following:

    • Update all objects that use current style: This changes the appearance of all tables that currently use this style.

    • Don’t update objects, and disconnect them from the style: This changes only the selected table. The style for the tables that aren’t updated are removed from the Style tab because the style was replaced.

  6. Click OK.

    The style is updated in the sidebar, and all tables that use the style are updated.