When I autofill a cell in my table it is filling the background color too. How do I stop this?

Mr. Snrub

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  1. 365
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I have an Excel table formatted as a table. It has a light-blue table style (alternating light-blue/white rows). When I autofill a cell down through the entire column the light-blue background gets filled too. So for that column only the entire column is solid blue (no alternating rows). I thought that was weird so I looked at the fill color in Font Options -> Fill -> Pattern Color, and it was set to blue. I'm pretty sure I did not individually set each alternating row to have a blue fill color, so how could this have happened? And how do I remove just the fill color for every cell in the table?
 

Excel Facts

Did you know Excel offers Filter by Selection?
Add the AutoFilter icon to the Quick Access Toolbar. Select a cell containing Apple, click AutoFilter, and you will get all rows with Apple
Select all the cells in the table, go to Home>Font and on the fill color dropdown choose "No fill"
 
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