Not as a table style--would be nice, though. You probably know you can use cell styles to override the color. Kind of tedious if you have a ton of tables, though.

Take care, Mike

@Mike – if you think in scripting this, I would totally avoid  using Table Styles.

Instead *only* using Cell Styles. If the logic of applying Cell Styles is clear – and I think in this case it is – one can write a script that can do that, independent how many rows or columns are present.

On the other hand, you could use a PlugIn e.g. from Woodwing, SmartStyles, that could save the table logic as a Library element, that  could be applied to a table.

What is also possible (without scripting or buying a plug-in):
Format a table in advance. This is done in a few minutes. You do not need cell styles for that.
Then copy/paste the contents over the clipboard from Excel to InDesign when  the table is selected.

Uwe

Sans cell styles, this Javascript adds 20% to the tint of cells in the very first column for each table. It does not change header rows (and on 2nd thought, maybe it shouldn't do footer rows either).

.. Without trying, I couldn't tell what happens with complickated merged cells. The document I'm working on contains 8 tables, but the idiotic author pasted them as figures into Word. All of my scripting prowess can't work around that ...

tables = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().tables.everyItem().getElements();
for (t=0; t<tables.length; t++)
processTable (tables[t]);
function processTable (table)
{
var i, cells = table.columns[0].cells;
for (i=table.headerRowCount; i<cells.length; i++)
{
  cells[i].fillTint += 20; // percentage to add
}
}