The appearance of the table is controlled by its table style. You can use the default table style, STANDARD, or create your own table styles.
When you create a new table style, you can specify a starting table. A starting table is a table in your drawing that is used as an example for formatting the new table style. Once a table is selected, you can specify the structure and contents to copy from that table to the table style.
When you select a table, you can change the appearance of the a table under the Table and Table Breaks sections of the Properties Inspector and Table visor. To display all of the table properties in the Properties Inspector, click All above the Object drop-down list. If you have a table style saved in your drawing, you can assign it to the table using the Table Style property under the Table section.
Table styles control the appearance of a table and all of the cells contained in the table, but you can override the style of individual cells. The Cell and Contents sections of the Properties Inspector are used to control the border styles, text formatting, and the size of the cells.
The border properties in a table's cell style control the display of the gridlines that divide the table into cells. The borders of the title row, the column heads row, and the data rows can have different lineweight and color and can be displayed or not displayed.
The appearance of text in the cells of the table is controlled by the text style that is specified in the current cell style. You can use any text style in the drawing or create a new one. The type of data you display in a row and the formatting for that data type is controlled by the formatting options you select in the Table Cell Format dialog box.