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Cell borders split
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 |
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Cell borders split
Debbi;2040213 Wrote: 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 Debbi: I believe this is a printer driver issue. However, could it be that you have applied your border format setting to paragraph or text, instead of to table (or cells for that matter) -- Henk57 |
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Cell borders split
You are correct, in that the formatting is applied to two sentences within
the cell. But, it's been that way for years, and through several versions of Word. I have now tried three different printers, two computers, and still get the same result. Looks fine in print preview, prints incorrectly. My take is that the printer driver appears to format it correctly, but Word is sending incorrect instructions. "Henk57" wrote in message ... Debbi;2040213 Wrote: 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 Debbi: I believe this is a printer driver issue. However, could it be that you have applied your border format setting to paragraph or text, instead of to table (or cells for that matter) -- Henk57 |
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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. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Debbi" wrote in message ... 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 |
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