Oh, how frustrating. Sometimes I've had luck with selecting the entire table and applying the format I want to it - on the ribbon, this would be under Table Tools > Layout. Unfortunately the only way to see if this has worked is to publish the form and check in the browser. Occasionally, I've had to address this in the view file. An InfoPath form is made up of a number of files - under the Publish menu, you'll find the option to export as source files. You can then modify the view XSL, and sometimes I've had to do that to make a layout table behave. But hopefully just applying format to the entire table will fix the issue :)
Hilary Stoupa
