Bug, Glitch or perfectly normal behaviour - strange overrides in Tables

Question

Friend of mine just sent me a file with a strange problem.
 
Here is a Table - with Char & Para Styles applied to contents of the cells - text cursor is in the last cell:

Now, hitting TAB - produces this - override from nowhere:

Table Style definition:

Cell Style isn't a problem either - even when it shows override:

The culprit - when one of the CharStyles is being active/selected BEFORE hitting TAB - even when all cells in a Table have [None] CharStyle applied - DEFINITION of this active/selected CharStyle is still applied to the cells in the newly created row - like when you create a new/blank TextFrame with some styles active / preselected:

So after selecting [None] as an active CharStyle - pressing TAB in the last cell - no more overrides:

Hopefully this will save someone precious time searching for gremlins.

Unless it's an old news - then please remove this post.

Mike Witherell · Answer

Table styles and cell styles can be incomprehensively glitchy. The only way to make sure your InDesign table and cell styles are correctly made is to deselect everything; be in a black Selection tool with nothing selected; and then proceed to make the styles. Then apply them by applying only the Table Style to the selected table. Last step is to look at the tiny None + plus sign in the Cell Styles panel and click the button that removes those overrides.

That gives you the cleanest possible application of table and cell styles and the best chance at an outcome that matches what you were expecting to see.

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