Phantom Lines

[Moltar]

I have a 2-page Word 2003 document with a few tables. The vertical sides of
one cell in the first table appear to be 1/4 point black upon opening, but
they are designed to be "clear" - no lines at all. This usually goes away
with a screen refresh (scroll), but sometimes persists in a broken form.
System usage is not abnormal, there's 512 MB of RAM, and the graphics card
is the one MS recommends.
The behavior persists across machines.
Ideas, anyone? Sound familiar at all?

 

[fiona]

Hi,

I may have misunderstood your question here but, have you checked that the
borders are set to "no borders" and that your gridlines are set to "hide
gridlines" (under the "Table" menu)? And are the borders only showing on the
screen and not when you print? Word will show the table borders on screen
unless you tell it not to, even if you have removed the printed borders. In
this circumstance it will show the gridlines on-screen but not when you print.

HTH.

 

[Moltar]

Thanks, fiona - I wish it were that simple. I've been using Word for about
10 years and I can guarantee that I know how to do tables. They are very
simple, not even nested. These two lines appear only at startup, and usually
disappear entirely after a few seconds. So, yes and no it shows on screen
and no it doesn't show on printing. They don't look like "real lines," more
like an artifact as it comes into memory. Curiously, they even appear when I
save the doc as HTML and open it in Word 2003 - what's THAT about? They
don't carry over into a PDF file when I use PDFWriter.
Since this is a resume, one would want these things not to happen as a
sample of the work one does, and many people don't want PDFs - they want to
munge your document.
I'll post if I ever get a solution.

 

[fiona]

I wish I could have been more help. Sometimes Word seems to just do things
for no reason. Good luck I hope you find your answer! And I'll be very
curious as to what it is.