I've pimped up a table of mine with all sorts of formatting: Borders, fonts and colors for the header row and the other rows, alignments, background area colors etc. Now, I have a different table on another slide, and I want to apply the formatting of the first table - as closely as possible - to the other table. Assume the simple case of the tables having the same number of rows and columns; and let us ignore complex issues like table direction (e.g. is the first cell on the left or right etc.) If I use the clone-formatting tool on the first table, then click the second table - I get almost no changes. In fact, other than the font color - which is only taken from one of the cells or rows of the source table - nothing seems to change. Try it with the attached two-slide file. I claim that in the simple case, the formatting should be applied fully, and in a more complex case of a different number of rows or columns, some reasonable heuristic should be applied (e.g. last row/col format applies to all subsequent rows/cols respectively in a larger table; extra rows/cols in origin table are ignored).
This workflow is supposed to be done via Table Styles. Find it at the bottom of the Properties tab in the sidebar when a table is selected. => NAB/WFM
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1) > This workflow is supposed to be done via Table Styles. I'm talking about both DF and styles here. Just like the clone formatting brush isn't redundant/unuseful for characters and paragraphs just because we have styles. > Find it at the bottom > of the Properties tab in the sidebar when a table is selected. Clone Formatting fails also when the first table has had a table psedo-style applied to it.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > I'm talking about both DF and styles here. Again: The formatting of a table is supposed to be done via table styles.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > Again: The formatting of a table is supposed to be done via table styles. And the formatting of text is supposed to be done via Character Styles. And yet - the Clone Formatting tool exists. It should work for tables just like it works for text, or paragraphs.