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Default Cell borders split

Make sure that the border is applied to the paragraph, not to selected text.
For this to work, the bordered text will need to be a separate paragraph
from the remaining text in the cell.

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"Debbi" wrote in message
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I have a multi-column, multi-row table. Within a single cell of multiple
lines of text, I have selected two rows and applied a simple box border.
This is an old document that's gone through several versions of Word and
been printed to both dot matrix and laser printers in the past. Now, in

both
Word 2002 and Word 2003, printing to a Brother MFC, instead of the subject
text looking like two lines of text with a box around them, it appears as
one line of text with a border around it, then a space, followed by

another
line of text with a border. It looks fine in print preview, but not when
printed. Tried the Brother site to see if there was an known issue. Also
tried using a HP4 printer driver. The doc printed fine to the Brother, but
the same table problem appears. I have about 90 pages with at least 150
instances of this problem, so manually trying to correct it (if I could
figure out how) is going to be an issue.

Your help is greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Debbi