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Tables - Ownership of Lines - Not Lining Up W
DocumentID: 600570
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:28:26 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: Right and bottom lines are set to NONE except for in the cells where they have to exist (i.e., the bottom and far right cells.) In other words all cells have a left and top line but only those cells that form the bottom and right edges of the table have a bottom and/or right side that display.

This information would be helpful when editing the lines between the cells of a table. If you are in the first cell on the left and want the right line to be none instead of single, the editing would have to be done from the second cell. This is because the first cell is already set to none. Only the cell on the far right has a right side (or left if in the first cell). That line belongs to the second cell. It is that cells left side.

For example. This is a table with four cells.
|==============================================================|
| | | | |
|-------------|----------------|---------------|---------------|
| | | | |
|==============================================================|

If the four cells had spaces between them this is how they would look...
|============ |============== |============== |=============|
| | | | |
|------------ |-------------- |-------------- |-------------|
| | | | |
|============ |============== |============== |=============|

The right and bottom edges of the cells exist but are set to none.

Each cell in a table has four borders and a setting for any one of the four borders is independent of borders on adjoining cells. In addition, there is no space between borders of adjoining cells. Thus, a change to a border setting, when combined with the existing border of an adjacent cell, may produce a thicker line than expected, or may cause lines not to line up correctly. If you want to be sure what your borders will look like, use View Document.

Situation: A customer deleted the lines of a table except for the first row (which was a header row). The customer then put the column lines back in by blocking from row 2 down to the bottom and selecting 3 (Lines), 2 (Right) and 2 (Single). When the customer printed or viewed the document, the column lines in the header did not line up with the rest of the table.

Answer: Instead of selecting right for the column lines outside of the header, the customer chose left for the lines. So the header lines were right and the rest of the lines were left. This set off the lines by a small amount.

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