Having problems selecting tables

[Gerard O]

I have a master page with a number of tables. I now find that I cannot select the table for formatting. I select and it appears to outline the table but the table formatting is blank and will not work.

Am i selecting the table wrongly ( with the select arrow). If i click on the table tool it tries to recreate another table over the table already there.

The file is attached

Thanks for any help or pointers

Route2022_Drt1.afpub

[Dan C]

1 hour ago, Gerard O said:

I have a master page with a number of tables. I now find that I cannot select the table for formatting.

This will happen if you are selecting the table on the page it has been applied to from the Master - if you want to edit the table itself (such as the table style) you will need to do this directly on the Master Page

[Gerard O]

Thanks Dan,

That was the problem. 

I need to copy and paste data from a Spreadsheet 9 I am using LibreOffice but the same problem when I used Excel). 

I found that I needed to format the cell contents ( they were all numeric) in the Spreadsheet before pasting into Publisher file , i.e. set italic, bold, centre in the cell vertically and align to the right. 

Appreciate your time as it got me out of a big problem.

 

Gerard