Table Styles - Automatic Format Header (only)

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to set up a Table Style to look like the following
Header A
Header B
Header C
Example 1
XX
XX
XX
Example 2
XX
XX
XX
Example 3
XX
XX
XX
I have the following Paragraph Styles set up:
Header - (Header A, B, C) centre aligned. Bold Arial 10pt
Left Column - (Example 1, 2, 3) Left aligned Arial Regular 10pt
Body - (XX) Centre aligned Arial Regular 10pt
These are linked to Cell Styles in their appropriate places
The Left Column is automatically applied, as is the Body Rows. The problem is that I have to tell the Header to apply the Header Cell Style
Is this possible to automate?
Thanks,

Answer 1

If the table was originally a Word doc, the Word table can be set to be a header in Word. This could be honored as it places into the InDesign file.
If the table was originally an Excel file, the Excel file does not have the ability to nominate the top row as header in advance of placing it into InDesign. This creates a manual moment.
Too bad you cannot set the header in the Show Import Options as you place it! This means you are often stopping to manually adjust/nominate the header row manually.
More pain: if you refresh the link to the Excel spreadsheet, you have to reset the header row manually again.
Maybe you can throw a script at it:
Table: convert first row to header rows