pesky borders

[teeb]

I have created a table and inserted some text in the cells. But it
gives me a visible and printable border no matter what I do!!
AAAARRRGH! I have gone into the little Tables palette that supposedly
lets me select "No Border" for the Line Style as well as the little
borderless icon to the left of the paint bucket/shading icon, but the
border still shows up on screen and prints out. Does anyone know what's
up with that??
teeb

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I don't know about the palette or the icon, but here's what works for me:

Cursor in table.
Use Format | Borders and Shading.
Select None on top left--*make sure* "Apply to" on bottom right is set to
"Table."

Does that work?

Alternate means of access--the Type command on the Borders portion of the
Borders and Shading tab on the Formatting Palette, which applies only to the
selected cells, or to the table if the entire table is selected. Also works
for me.

I think the paint bucket icon that you reference seems to be under Shading
instead of Borders--I see two paint bucket icons there and offhand don't
know the difference between them, since I don't mess with tables much. They
both are affecting Fill Color, not the lines.

I don't see anything on the Tables portion of the Formatting Palette that
seems appropriate for formatting borders, which is counter-intuitive.

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi teeb-

It sounds like you've done all but one thing... You make no mention of
_selecting_ the table first. If you only have your insertion point in a
particular cell, that is the only cell that will be affected by the format
change. In the case of a Border that doesn't do much good because the
surrounding cells still have the border attribute applied to them.

Try Table>Select>Table first (or click the elusive 'select table' icon that
appears at the upper left corner of the table), then apply your settings
changes.

Regards |:>)