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Phantom Lines
I have a 2-page Word 2003 document with a few tables. The vertical sides of
one cell in the first table appear to be 1/4 point black upon opening, but they are designed to be "clear" - no lines at all. This usually goes away with a screen refresh (scroll), but sometimes persists in a broken form. System usage is not abnormal, there's 512 MB of RAM, and the graphics card is the one MS recommends. The behavior persists across machines. Ideas, anyone? Sound familiar at all? |
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Hi,
I may have misunderstood your question here but, have you checked that the borders are set to "no borders" and that your gridlines are set to "hide gridlines" (under the "Table" menu)? And are the borders only showing on the screen and not when you print? Word will show the table borders on screen unless you tell it not to, even if you have removed the printed borders. In this circumstance it will show the gridlines on-screen but not when you print. HTH. "Moltar" wrote: I have a 2-page Word 2003 document with a few tables. The vertical sides of one cell in the first table appear to be 1/4 point black upon opening, but they are designed to be "clear" - no lines at all. This usually goes away with a screen refresh (scroll), but sometimes persists in a broken form. System usage is not abnormal, there's 512 MB of RAM, and the graphics card is the one MS recommends. The behavior persists across machines. Ideas, anyone? Sound familiar at all? |
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Thanks, fiona - I wish it were that simple. I've been using Word for about
10 years and I can guarantee that I know how to do tables. They are very simple, not even nested. These two lines appear only at startup, and usually disappear entirely after a few seconds. So, yes and no it shows on screen and no it doesn't show on printing. They don't look like "real lines," more like an artifact as it comes into memory. Curiously, they even appear when I save the doc as HTML and open it in Word 2003 - what's THAT about? They don't carry over into a PDF file when I use PDFWriter. Since this is a resume, one would want these things not to happen as a sample of the work one does, and many people don't want PDFs - they want to munge your document. I'll post if I ever get a solution. |
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I wish I could have been more help. Sometimes Word seems to just do things
for no reason. Good luck I hope you find your answer! :-) And I'll be very curious as to what it is. |
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