You’re right that, when you use a Word Table Style, we don’t try to use the eaDocX-defined cell padding – the effects are unpredictable!
I can’t seem to find a ‘cell padding’ setting in the Word Table definition (in Word). I think this may be because ‘cell padding’ is an HTML idea (eaDocX inserts tables into Word as lumps of HTML).
I got the effect which I think you are looking for by editing the Word Table style and adding indentation to the paragraph settings for the table. This way, you can have different indentation for headings, first column, alternate columns etc.
Probably more flexibility than is useful (this is Word after all!) but hopefully you’ll be able to get the look you want.
