: Why I cannot set a cell style without getting a +, it also doesn't apply faithfully the strokes on the cells I have indesign cs6 and a table with 2 rows and 5 cols and some horizontal and

@Gretchen549

As far as I understand, you want to achieve a table with outer strokes set with one parameters (say thickness), and inner strokes with other parameters.

The best way to achieve that is to use a Table Style, not a Cell Style. Table styles allow setting table stroke (outer), row strokes and column strokes (inner) separately as well as to alternate them.

The reason you get a Style+ situation is that a Cell Style applies to every single cell, not the group of cells (that's why there is no Inner Stroke option in the Cell Style - a single cell cannot have inner strokes). In your particular situation you select several cells each having different stokes on different sides - InDesign does not clearly understand which of those cells you want to become a sample for the style (all of them are different!), so to retain the appearence it assigns a + to each cell.

By the way, to clear any +'s from any selection you can Alt+click on the style name including [none] for cell styles.

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