Apply Table Style based on Paragraph Style - FM 2019 (unstructured)

Now I see your example, it looks closer to our Tip paragraphs: the icon has its own style to position it in the sidehead, and the normal body-text as next style. That's possibly as close to automation as you'll get, though :-}

The short answer is no. You can create table styles that will use specific paragraph styles in each cell, but there is no way to get a paragraph style to insert a table. You might be able to do it with a script, but you'd still have to run the script to do it.

Perhaps my explanation isn't clear. Here is what we have:

The first table uses the table tyle nav Navigational Table. The first cell uses a 'dummy' paragraph style that is simply used to auto-insert the image. The second cell, containing the navigational path, uses a separate paragraph style (na Navigational Paths).

Further down is another table style (hth How To Heading), with another 'dummy' paragraph style to insert the approprate image in the first cell and another paragraph style (hth How to Heading) to insert to text.

Is there a way to link the table style to a specific paragraph style, so that when the user selects the na Navigational Paths paragraph style, the nav Navigational Table style is applied.

I could be misunderstanding what you need to deliver, but I'm reminded of some of our reference documents that use a tabular presentation without tables – autonumbering in paragraph styles, with a style per element, gives us a layout like this: