Problem creating PDF

[Carolyn]

Office 2003 sp2 on XP Pro/Acrobat 7.0.8

I'm working from a template and trying to insert a table--3 col/11
rows--with one color across row one and rest of table in 5% grey.
The PDF needs to be viewable online and I keep hitting a snag when I convert
and its not even consistent.
Convert to PDF (standard) causes the table to "lose" horizontal lines at
less than 1.5 thickness (I want .75) unless you zoom in to 200% and that's
not acceptable. Also keep losing the white background on my doc and have to
reset it in Word. I've never had this problem before and don't know what
changed.
Can someone recommend which setting to use in Adobe and suggestions on
settings that might be causing the problem? At this point I can't even
remember what I have/haven't tried and its frustrating beyond belief. I had
it working and immediately created a second PDF only to have it go
incredibly wrong again! Lately this seems to be a problem in the adobe
forums but the answers are vague and "snippy" so I thought maybe here I
could find someone that could come up with something more detailed.
Thanks

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

My advise is to ask in the Acrobat forums and if the answers are vague, you
need to tell them that you don't understand.

 

[Carolyn]

Since the process uses 2 different programs I was hoping someone here might
have already run into this issue and found an answer-something more "step by
step" in case the answers I got had left out something that might seem to be
automatic/understood by them but not so obvious to someone with less than
expert experience. A lot of software manuals tend to do that as well when
written by someone extremely familiar with a program forgetting that not
everyone has the same grasp of the details.
I *understood* the info in the adobe forum just fine and applied it but with
limited success.

My advise is to ask in the Acrobat forums and if the answers are vague,
you need to tell them that you don't understand.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher] *snip*

... trying to insert a table--3 col/11 rows--with one color across row one

and rest of table in 5% grey.

The PDF needs to be viewable online... Convert to PDF (standard) causes
the table to "lose" horizontal lines at less than 1.5 thickness (too
heavy-I want .75) unless you zoom in to 200% > ...Also keep losing the
white background on my doc and have to reset it in Word.

*snip*