Actually, this was all within the context of a table. The problem is that I
want spaces between the columns. If you turn on the border of two adjacent
cells, the line is continuous. I want a break so that you can tell the line
that is for the first cell and a line for the second. Putting the border on
the *paragraph* works just fine if you have a single row-- but I have
multiple lines in my cell (which actually is a cell in a column merged over
three rows) and for some reason when I print it out the line under the text
is higher than the lines under the text of other cells-- even though print
preview shows things to be OK. The work-around I ended up using (which is far
from ideal) was to use the paragraph border with everything in a single row
with text boxes for the additional text for cells with mutliple lines.

Grant
"TracyJ" wrote:

Well, you may have already thought of this, but, I would suggest using a
table. That is about the only way I can think of to make this work and line
up correctly. You would need to turn on the bottom border in cell containing
your heading. I think it works best that way.

Hope that helps.
--
Thanks!
Tracy


"Grant" wrote:

I have been using paragraph border lines to allow me to have column headers
that have individual lines instead of ones that run across the length of the
table.
i.e., I want something like:
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
___________ _____________ _______________

instead of
Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
__________________________________________

The problem with using paragraph borders is that for some reason I can't get
the lines to be consistently aligned when there are some columns with single
lines and some with mutliple lines. Ironically, on the screen everything
looks fine, but when I print, sure enough, the lines underneath some column
headers are higher than their neighbors.

i.e. (unfortunately this will make it look far more dramatic than it is, but
in my document, I do actually have three lines at three different positions)
Column 2 Column 3
Column 1 multiline also multiline
_______________
____________
____________


What I would like is either another solution or to find a way to have the
paragraph border be more consistent (the text is formatted exactly the same
for all columns, including paragraph formatting).

Any hints?

Thanks,

Grant