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Default Cell border confusion after cells are merged

I build fill-me-out forms with tables in Word instead of using underline,
underline, underline...to make it easy to fill-in electronically...or after
printed.

Part of my process is...build the table, select all, clear all borders,
merge cells as needed...say Name field on first line because I built the
table column count based on the City, State, Postal line.

Here's my challenge...and I'm gonna say I think Word is getting confused
after cells are merged. I'll go back to the blank, fill-in cells
(cell-by-cell) and put a border on the bottom...my underline. These days,
when I go to underline some cells...where I've merged cells in the line above
or below...the entire row gets underlined.

I'm at a loss. I've tried a few different methods of bordering...click the
button on the tool bar, highlight the cell and right-click it and go to
Borders / Shading, and even get a cell that works and CTRL-Y it to the next
cell.

Any ideas?


Thanks,
Doug