title: Creating a custom Table Style for PowerPoint table
body: <p>I am creating a custom table style for a powerpoint table. Where I am having issues is formatting the first column. There are two items I want to implement.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I want the text in the first column = blue</li>
  <li>I want the right border of the first column to be blue</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The below is a copy of my <code>tablestyles.xml</code> code. Specifically where I need help is understanding why <code>&lt;a:firstCo&gt;</code> is not working as coded (yes, I am new to this).</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?&gt;
  &lt;a:tblStyleLst xmlns:a="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/drawingml/2006/main" def="{5C22544A-7EE6-4342-B048-85BDC9FD1C3A}"&gt;
  
      &lt;a:tblStyle styleId="{13FEF9DA-6794-4BE8-A12E-2D652123F822}" styleName="CMB Custom Table"&gt;
          &lt;a:wholeTbl&gt;
              &lt;a:tcStyle&gt; 
                  &lt;a:tcBdr&gt;
                      &lt;a:left&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="0"&gt;&lt;a:scrgbClr r="0" g="0" b="0"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:left&gt;
                      &lt;a:right&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="0"&gt;&lt;a:scrgbClr r="0" g="0" b="0"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:right&gt;
                      &lt;a:bottom&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="3"&gt;&lt;a:schemeClr val="accent1"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:bottom&gt;
                      &lt;a:insideH&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="1"&gt;&lt;a:schemeClr val="accent2"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:insideH&gt;
                      &lt;a:insideV&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="1"&gt;&lt;a:schemeClr val="accent2"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:insideV&gt;
                  &lt;/a:tcBdr&gt;
              &lt;/a:tcStyle&gt;
          &lt;/a:wholeTbl&gt;
  
  
          &lt;a:firstCol&gt;
              &lt;a:tcTxStyle&gt;
                  &lt;a:fontRef idx="minor"/&gt;
                  &lt;a:schemeClr val="accent3"/&gt;
              &lt;/a:tcTxStyle&gt;
              &lt;a:tcStyle&gt;                 
                  &lt;a:tcBdr&gt;
                      &lt;a:right&gt; &lt;a:lnRef idx="3"&gt;&lt;a:schemeClr val="accent3"/&gt; &lt;/a:lnRef &gt; &lt;/a:right&gt;
                  &lt;/a:tcBdr&gt;
              &lt;/a:tcStyle&gt;
  
          &lt;/a:firstCol&gt;
  
          &lt;a:firstRow&gt;
              &lt;a:tcTxStyle&gt;
                  &lt;a:fontRef idx="minor"/&gt;
                  &lt;a:schemeClr val="accent1"/&gt;
              &lt;/a:tcTxStyle&gt;
              &lt;a:tcStyle&gt;
                  &lt;a:tcBdr&gt;
                      &lt;a:top&gt;&lt;a:lnRef idx="0"&gt;&lt;a:scrgbClr r="0" g="0" b="0"/&gt;&lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:top&gt;
                      &lt;a:bottom&gt;&lt;a:lnRef idx="3"&gt;&lt;a:schemeClr val="accent1"/&gt;&lt;/a:lnRef&gt;&lt;/a:bottom&gt;
                  &lt;/a:tcBdr&gt;              
              &lt;/a:tcStyle&gt;                
          &lt;/a:firstRow&gt;       
      &lt;/a:tblStyle&gt;
  
  &lt;/a:tblStyleLst&gt;
  </code></pre>