diff --git a/crates/docx/src/read/story.rs b/crates/docx/src/read/story.rs
index 0550557f1..770375365 100644
--- a/crates/docx/src/read/story.rs
+++ b/crates/docx/src/read/story.rs
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ pub struct StoryCtx {
     pub story_depth: usize,
     /// Reading a header or footer (not a text box inside one): where Word keeps its watermark.
     pub in_hf: bool,
+    /// Reading a table cell's paragraphs (not a text box inside one).
+    in_cell: bool,
 }
 
 /// Paragraph content under construction.
diff --git a/crates/docx/src/read/story/blocks.rs b/crates/docx/src/read/story/blocks.rs
index e72f16bf6..8a378bce8 100644
--- a/crates/docx/src/read/story/blocks.rs
+++ b/crates/docx/src/read/story/blocks.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,45 @@ use super::{
     placeholder_of, sectpr, tcpr, trpr,
 };
 
+/// Word draws a run's text with the complex-script font, size, bold and italic only when the run
+/// is complex script or right to left (`w:cs`, `w:rtl`) by its own properties, its paragraph
+/// style, its table style or the run defaults; a character style saying so, or saying not,
+/// doesn't count (nor does its `w:rtl` change the order of the text). Anywhere else the text takes the run's other font and `w:sz`, Thai included,
+/// whatever its language or `w:hint` (measured in Word for Windows: Thai text at `w:sz` 22 pt,
+/// `w:szCs` 11 pt is drawn at 22 pt). WordCraft draws Thai, Lao and Indic characters with the
+/// complex-script formatting unless the run says it is not complex script, and counts a character
+/// style's `w:cs`; so a run it would draw otherwise says on itself whether it is complex script
+/// (`w:cs`, which Word reads the same way). `table` is the run formatting the table style gives
+/// the paragraph's cell. Runs with right-to-left text are left as they are: they are written
+/// right to left.
+fn mark_runs_as_word_draws_them(styles: &craft_wordmodel::StyleSheet, para: &mut Paragraph, table: Option<&CharProps>) {
+    use craft_wordmodel::bidi::{is_complex_script, is_rtl_script};
+    let style = para.props.style.as_deref();
+    let mut at = 0;
+    for run in &mut para.runs {
+        let text = para.text.get(at..at + run.len).unwrap_or("");
+        at += run.len;
+        if text.is_empty() || text.chars().any(is_rtl_script) {
+            continue;
+        }
+        let word = styles.resolve_char_in(style, table, &CharProps { style: None, ..run.props.clone() });
+        let mut ours = styles.resolve_char_in(style, table, &run.props);
+        // Right to left only by its character style: Word draws and orders the run as it does
+        // one that says nothing (measured, Latin and Thai text).
+        if ours.rtl && !word.rtl {
+            run.props.rtl = Some(false);
+            ours = styles.resolve_char_in(style, table, &run.props);
+        }
+        if word.cs || word.rtl {
+            if !ours.cs && !ours.rtl {
+                run.props.cs = Some(true);
+            }
+        } else if !ours.rtl && (ours.cs || (!ours.cs_off && text.chars().any(is_complex_script))) {
+            run.props.cs = Some(false);
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 impl Reader<'_> {
     /// Read a story's blocks from a container element (`w:body`, `w:hdr`, `w:tc`, `w:txbxContent`…).
     pub fn read_blocks(&mut self, sc: &mut StoryCtx, parent: &El, rels: &Rels, out: &mut Blocks, depth: usize) {
@@ -276,6 +315,10 @@ impl Reader<'_> {
         if sc.fields.iter().any(|f| f.phase == Phase::Instr) && para.plain_text().is_empty() {
             para.mark.hidden = Some(true);
         }
+        // A cell's paragraphs are marked once their table is read: its style counts.
+        if !sc.in_cell {
+            mark_runs_as_word_draws_them(&self.doc.styles, &mut para, None);
+        }
         para.normalize();
         para
     }
@@ -355,8 +398,10 @@ impl Reader<'_> {
                     continue;
                 }
                 let mut blocks = Blocks::new();
+                let outer = std::mem::replace(&mut sc.in_cell, true);
                 self.read_blocks(sc, tc, rels, &mut blocks, depth + 4);
                 self.flush_pending(sc, &mut blocks);
+                sc.in_cell = outer;
                 row.cells.push(Cell { props, blocks, controls: cell_controls });
             }
             if !row.cells.is_empty() {
@@ -370,6 +415,20 @@ impl Reader<'_> {
             let cols = table.cols().clamp(1, MAX_COLS);
             table.grid = vec![72.0; cols];
         }
+        // The cells' paragraphs, with the run formatting the table style gives each cell (a
+        // table inside has marked its own).
+        let chrs = self.doc.styles.table_cells_chr(&table);
+        for (ri, row) in table.rows.iter_mut().enumerate() {
+            for (ci, cell) in row.cells.iter_mut().enumerate() {
+                let chr = chrs.as_ref().and_then(|c| c.get(ri)?.get(ci));
+                for b in &mut cell.blocks {
+                    if let Block::Para(p) = Arc::make_mut(b) {
+                        mark_runs_as_word_draws_them(&self.doc.styles, p, chr);
+                        p.normalize();
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
         Some(table)
     }
 }
diff --git a/crates/docx/tests/it/bidi.rs b/crates/docx/tests/it/bidi.rs
index 3df1c04c9..6dae963aa 100644
--- a/crates/docx/tests/it/bidi.rs
+++ b/crates/docx/tests/it/bidi.rs
@@ -175,3 +175,118 @@ fn rtl_tables_and_sections_round_trip() {
     assert_eq!(again, vec![true, false]);
     assert!(r.last_section.rtl && r.last_section.columns.count == 2);
 }
+
+/// A package whose body is `body` and whose styles part holds `styles`.
+fn docx_with_styles(body: &str, styles: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let ns = r#"xmlns:w="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/wordprocessingml/2006/main""#;
+    let root = r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rId1" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/officeDocument" Target="word/document.xml"/></Relationships>"#;
+    let rels = r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Relationships xmlns="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/package/2006/relationships"><Relationship Id="rIdS" Type="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships/styles" Target="styles.xml"/></Relationships>"#;
+    let doc = format!(r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><w:document {ns}><w:body>{body}</w:body></w:document>"#);
+    let st = format!(r#"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><w:styles {ns}>{styles}</w:styles>"#);
+    zip(&[
+        ("_rels/.rels", root.as_bytes()),
+        ("word/_rels/document.xml.rels", rels.as_bytes()),
+        ("word/document.xml", doc.as_bytes()),
+        ("word/styles.xml", st.as_bytes()),
+    ])
+}
+
+/// Thai text draws in the complex-script formatting only where Word draws it so (measured in Word
+/// for Windows; run defaults Angsana New 22 pt, complex script Tahoma 11 pt bold). Without
+/// `w:cs` or `w:rtl` on the run, its paragraph style or the run defaults, Thai text measures as
+/// Angsana New 22 pt, whatever its language, `w:hint` or character style.
+#[test]
+fn thai_text_takes_the_complex_script_formatting_only_in_a_complex_script_run() {
+    let thai = "ทดสอบ ภาษาไทย";
+    let defaults = |extra: &str| {
+        format!(
+            r#"<w:docDefaults><w:rPrDefault><w:rPr><w:rFonts w:ascii="Angsana New" w:hAnsi="Angsana New" w:cs="Tahoma"/><w:bCs/><w:sz w:val="44"/><w:szCs w:val="22"/>{extra}</w:rPr></w:rPrDefault></w:docDefaults>
+<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:default="1" w:styleId="Normal"><w:name w:val="Normal"/></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="paragraph" w:styleId="CsPara"><w:name w:val="CsPara"/><w:basedOn w:val="Normal"/><w:rPr><w:cs/></w:rPr></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="character" w:styleId="CsChar"><w:name w:val="CsChar"/><w:rPr><w:cs/></w:rPr></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="character" w:styleId="CsOff"><w:name w:val="CsOff"/><w:rPr><w:cs w:val="0"/></w:rPr></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="character" w:styleId="RtlChar"><w:name w:val="RtlChar"/><w:rPr><w:rtl/></w:rPr></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="table" w:styleId="CsTable"><w:name w:val="CsTable"/><w:rPr><w:cs/></w:rPr></w:style>
+<w:style w:type="table" w:styleId="SizeTable"><w:name w:val="SizeTable"/><w:rPr><w:sz w:val="30"/><w:szCs w:val="16"/></w:rPr></w:style>"#
+        )
+    };
+    let latin = ("Angsana New", 22.0, false);
+    let complex = ("Tahoma", 11.0, true);
+    let run = |rpr: &str| format!(r#"<w:p><w:r><w:rPr>{rpr}</w:rPr><w:t xml:space="preserve">{thai}</w:t></w:r></w:p>"#);
+    let styled = |p: &str, rpr: &str| {
+        format!(r#"<w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val="{p}"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:rPr>{rpr}</w:rPr><w:t xml:space="preserve">{thai}</w:t></w:r></w:p>"#)
+    };
+    let in_table = |style: &str| {
+        format!(
+            r#"<w:tbl><w:tblPr><w:tblStyle w:val="{style}"/></w:tblPr><w:tblGrid><w:gridCol w:w="6000"/></w:tblGrid><w:tr><w:tc>{}</w:tc></w:tr></w:tbl>"#,
+            run("")
+        )
+    };
+    let cs_off = r#"<w:rStyle w:val="CsOff"/>"#;
+    let cases: Vec<(&str, String, String, (&str, f32, bool))> = vec![
+        ("plain", defaults(""), run(""), latin),
+        ("bidi language", defaults(""), run(r#"<w:lang w:val="th-TH" w:bidi="th-TH"/>"#), latin),
+        ("hint", defaults(""), run(r#"<w:rFonts w:hint="cs"/>"#), latin),
+        ("character style", defaults(""), run(r#"<w:rStyle w:val="CsChar"/>"#), latin),
+        ("character style rtl", defaults(""), run(r#"<w:rStyle w:val="RtlChar"/>"#), latin),
+        ("run cs", defaults(""), run("<w:cs/>"), complex),
+        ("run rtl", defaults(""), run("<w:rtl/>"), complex),
+        ("paragraph style", defaults(""), styled("CsPara", ""), complex),
+        ("paragraph style, run cs off", defaults(""), styled("CsPara", r#"<w:cs w:val="0"/>"#), latin),
+        ("run defaults", defaults("<w:cs/>"), run(""), complex),
+        // A character style's `w:cs w:val="0"` doesn't turn the paragraph style's or the run
+        // defaults' off either.
+        ("paragraph style, character style cs off", defaults(""), styled("CsPara", cs_off), complex),
+        ("run defaults, character style cs off", defaults("<w:cs/>"), run(cs_off), complex),
+        // A table style's `w:cs` counts, and its sizes are the run's.
+        ("table style", defaults(""), in_table("CsTable"), complex),
+        ("table style sizes", defaults(""), in_table("SizeTable"), ("Angsana New", 15.0, false)),
+    ];
+    let check = |d: &Document, name: &str, want: (&str, f32, bool), when: &str| {
+        let (p, table) = match &*d.body[0] {
+            craft_wordmodel::Block::Table(t) => {
+                (t.rows[0].cells[0].blocks[0].as_para().unwrap(), d.styles.table_cells_chr(t).map(|c| c[0][0].clone()))
+            }
+            b => (b.as_para().unwrap(), None),
+        };
+        let rc = d.styles.resolve_char_in(p.props.style.as_deref(), table.as_ref(), &p.runs[0].props);
+        for ch in p.text.chars() {
+            let drawn = if rc.uses_complex(ch) { rc.complex() } else { rc.clone() };
+            assert_eq!((drawn.font.as_str(), drawn.size, drawn.bold), want, "{name} {when}: {ch:?}");
+        }
+        let c = &p.runs[0].props;
+        assert_eq!((c.font_cs.as_deref(), c.size_cs, c.bold_cs), (None, None, None), "{name} {when}: nothing is pinned");
+    };
+    for (name, styles, body, want) in &cases {
+        let d = craft_docx::read(&docx_with_styles(body, styles)).unwrap();
+        check(&d, name, *want, "read");
+        let again = craft_docx::read(&craft_docx::write(&d).unwrap()).unwrap();
+        check(&again, name, *want, "after a save");
+    }
+    // Latin text and right-to-left text are left as they were.
+    let body = r#"<w:p><w:r><w:t>Latin only</w:t></w:r></w:p><w:p><w:r><w:t>سلام</w:t></w:r></w:p>"#;
+    let d = craft_docx::read(&docx_with_styles(body, &defaults(""))).unwrap();
+    for p in paras(&d) {
+        assert_eq!(p.runs[0].props.cs, None, "{}", p.text);
+    }
+    // Latin text follows the same rule (measured): a character style's `w:cs` or `w:rtl` leaves it in the
+    // run's own formatting, a character style's `w:cs w:val="0"` under a paragraph style's
+    // `w:cs` in the complex-script formatting.
+    let latin_in =
+        |p: &str, rpr: &str| format!(r#"<w:p><w:pPr><w:pStyle w:val="{p}"/></w:pPr><w:r><w:rPr>{rpr}</w:rPr><w:t>Latin</w:t></w:r></w:p>"#);
+    let body =
+        latin_in("Normal", r#"<w:rStyle w:val="CsChar"/>"#) + &latin_in("CsPara", cs_off) + &latin_in("Normal", r#"<w:rStyle w:val="RtlChar"/>"#);
+    let d = craft_docx::read(&docx_with_styles(&body, &defaults(""))).unwrap();
+    let again = craft_docx::read(&craft_docx::write(&d).unwrap()).unwrap();
+    for (d, when) in [(&d, "read"), (&again, "after a save")] {
+        let drawn: Vec<_> = paras(d)
+            .iter()
+            .map(|p| {
+                let rc = d.styles.resolve_char(p.props.style.as_deref(), &p.runs[0].props);
+                let c = if rc.uses_complex('L') { rc.complex() } else { rc };
+                (c.font, c.size)
+            })
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(drawn, [("Angsana New".to_string(), 22.0), ("Tahoma".to_string(), 11.0), ("Angsana New".to_string(), 22.0)], "{when}");
+    }
+}
diff --git a/crates/wordmodel/src/resolve.rs b/crates/wordmodel/src/resolve.rs
index 40449e82c..7ef12ccdc 100644
--- a/crates/wordmodel/src/resolve.rs
+++ b/crates/wordmodel/src/resolve.rs
@@ -66,6 +66,11 @@ pub struct ResolvedChar {
     pub rtl: bool,
     /// The whole run uses the complex-script properties (`w:cs`).
     pub cs: bool,
+    /// The run says it is not complex script (`w:cs w:val="0"`): its Thai, Indic, Arabic or
+    /// Hebrew characters take its other font, size, bold and italic, as Word draws them in a run
+    /// that isn't complex script or right to left.
+    #[serde(default, skip_serializing_if = "std::ops::Not::not")]
+    pub cs_off: bool,
     /// Complex-script font, size, bold and italic (Arabic, Persian, Hebrew… text).
     pub font_cs: String,
     /// East Asian font (Chinese, Japanese and Korean text), when one is set.
@@ -115,6 +120,7 @@ impl ResolvedChar {
             lang: c.lang.clone(),
             rtl: c.rtl.unwrap_or(false),
             cs: c.cs.unwrap_or(false),
+            cs_off: c.cs == Some(false),
             font_cs: c.font_cs.clone().or_else(|| c.font.clone()).unwrap_or_else(|| crate::styles::BODY_FONT.to_string()),
             font_ea: c.font_ea.clone(),
             size_cs: c.size_cs.or(c.size).unwrap_or(crate::props::DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE).clamp(1.0, 1638.0),
@@ -133,9 +139,11 @@ impl ResolvedChar {
     pub fn kerned(&self) -> bool {
         self.kern > 0.0 && self.size >= self.kern
     }
-    /// Does a character of this run use the complex-script properties?
+    /// Does a character of this run use the complex-script properties? Every character of a
+    /// right-to-left or complex-script run does; otherwise a complex-script character does,
+    /// unless the run says it is not complex script.
     pub fn uses_complex(&self, c: char) -> bool {
-        self.rtl || self.cs || crate::bidi::is_complex_script(c)
+        self.rtl || self.cs || (!self.cs_off && crate::bidi::is_complex_script(c))
     }
     /// The size glyphs are drawn and measured at. Word sets superscript and subscript text at
     /// 0.65 of the run's size rounded to the half point, a font size the format can store
diff --git a/crates/wordmodel/src/styles.rs b/crates/wordmodel/src/styles.rs
index 5383c1510..eea1659c2 100644
--- a/crates/wordmodel/src/styles.rs
+++ b/crates/wordmodel/src/styles.rs
@@ -828,6 +828,42 @@ impl StyleSheet {
         out.chr.style = None;
         Some(out)
     }
+    /// The run formatting `t`'s table style gives the text of each of its cells, by row and then
+    /// cell: each of a cell's parts' over the last, lowest precedence first (ECMA-376 §17.7.6), as
+    /// layout applies it between document defaults and the paragraph's style. `None` when the
+    /// table has no style. The style and the table's size are worked out once for the whole table,
+    /// and each set of parts is put together once.
+    pub fn table_cells_chr(&self, t: &crate::table::Table) -> Option<Vec<Vec<CharProps>>> {
+        let st = self.table_style(t.props.style.as_deref()?)?;
+        let sizes = (st.parts.band_size.unwrap_or(0), st.parts.col_band_size.unwrap_or(0));
+        let ncols = t.cols().clamp(1, crate::table::MAX_COLS);
+        let nrows = t.rows.len();
+        let mut made: Vec<(PartSet, CharProps)> = Vec::new();
+        let mut out = Vec::with_capacity(nrows);
+        for (r, row) in t.rows.iter().enumerate() {
+            let mut g = row.first_grid();
+            let mut cells = Vec::with_capacity(row.cells.len());
+            for cell in &row.cells {
+                let span = cell.span();
+                let parts = PartSet::of_cell(&t.props.look, sizes, (r, nrows), (g, span, ncols));
+                g = g.saturating_add(span);
+                let chr = match made.iter().find(|(p, _)| *p == parts) {
+                    Some((_, chr)) => chr.clone(),
+                    None => {
+                        let mut chr = CharProps::default();
+                        for part in parts.iter() {
+                            chr.overlay(&st.part(part).chr);
+                        }
+                        made.push((parts, chr.clone()));
+                        chr
+                    }
+                };
+                cells.push(chr);
+            }
+            out.push(cells);
+        }
+        Some(out)
+    }
     /// Add or replace a style.
     pub fn upsert(&mut self, st: Style) {
         match self.styles.iter_mut().find(|s| s.id == st.id) {