Table Frame Stroke Settings Apply to Text Frame, Too

[walt.farrell]

While experimenting, I created a new document, then looked at the Text Frame panel, which showed, as I expected, no stroke by default:

I then created a Table and assigned a rose-colored gradient to the stroke of the table frame via the Table Panel:

I then looked at the Text Frame panel again, and found that my stroke assignment for the table carried over to the settings for Text Frames:

As those are two different tools, I don't think that should have happened.

 

[carl123]

It will work the other way around as well.  i.e. if you change the text frame settings the table settings will reflect that change.

I've mentioned before that Tables act like Text Frames at times and I'm thinking that Tables may have been designed around Text Frames rather than completely new Table code added to Publisher.

It's also mentionable that the Thumbnail for a Table is the same Thumbnail as a Text Frame in the layers panel

[Michail]

I also think it's intentional. The layer control panel is a clear hint. In InDesign, for example, tables are also based on the Text tool.
In front of the text frame are the outer boundaries of the outer table cells, which can have a different color than the overall frame. This also indicates that the base frame is a text frame.

[Chris_K]

This is something I already have reported to the development team. I think it would be much better if they were separate