Hi All,

Am I doing something wrong or is this poor functionality?

In Word 2003, in my table cell:

table table properties borders and shading borders tab apply
to: cell

Don't you think the current borders of the cell you're in should be
shown? I get no borders.

I'm just making a lot of forms and trying to match the borders to other
forms, but I can't see or remember what width and color of grey I used.

Thanks,

Michele

I agree that this is poor functionality. It's virtually impossible, at
normal Zooms, to tell the difference between a half-point and three-quarter
point border. I'm not sure how an improvement could be implemented, but
something needs to be done.

Here's something interesting to try. In a table with no borders, select one
cell. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and apply a half-point border to
the top of the cell and a 1.5 point border to the bottom of the cell. OK
out.

Display the Reveal Formatting task pane. With your bordered cell selected,
you'll see that Borders reports a 0.5 pt top border. If you select the cell
beneath that one, Borders will report a 1.5 pt top border.

If you select your original cell, return to Borders and Shading, and apply
side borders (any weight), you'll see that Reveal Formatting reports the
left border but not the right. The cell to the right of the original one
should at least report a left border, but it doesn't; what it does report is
"(no border)" for Top, Bottom, and Right, leaving you to assume there is
some kind of border on the left. sigh

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"MJones" wrote in message
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Hi All,

Am I doing something wrong or is this poor functionality?

In Word 2003, in my table cell:

table table properties borders and shading borders tab apply
to: cell

Don't you think the current borders of the cell you're in should be
shown? I get no borders.

I'm just making a lot of forms and trying to match the borders to other
forms, but I can't see or remember what width and color of grey I used.

Thanks,

Michele

Try this one --

Apply pattern shading to a table (anything from the lower part of the
Shading tab, like 50% green).

Apply a bottom border to a paragraph within the table.

Use format paragraph to add some space above and below that paragraph.



The space above and below shows as white, regardless of any other shading
settings; even if you apply full shading to the table and or to the
paragraph. But only if the bottom border is there...




"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I agree that this is poor functionality. It's virtually impossible, at
normal Zooms, to tell the difference between a half-point and
three-quarter
point border. I'm not sure how an improvement could be implemented, but
something needs to be done.

Here's something interesting to try. In a table with no borders, select
one
cell. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and apply a half-point border to
the top of the cell and a 1.5 point border to the bottom of the cell. OK
out.

Display the Reveal Formatting task pane. With your bordered cell selected,
you'll see that Borders reports a 0.5 pt top border. If you select the
cell
beneath that one, Borders will report a 1.5 pt top border.

If you select your original cell, return to Borders and Shading, and apply
side borders (any weight), you'll see that Reveal Formatting reports the
left border but not the right. The cell to the right of the original one
should at least report a left border, but it doesn't; what it does report
is
"(no border)" for Top, Bottom, and Right, leaving you to assume there is
some kind of border on the left. sigh

--
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.

"MJones" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi All,

Am I doing something wrong or is this poor functionality?

In Word 2003, in my table cell:

table table properties borders and shading borders tab apply
to: cell

Don't you think the current borders of the cell you're in should be
shown? I get no borders.

I'm just making a lot of forms and trying to match the borders to other
forms, but I can't see or remember what width and color of grey I used.

Thanks,

Michele

Hi Suzanne,

Yes, I get the same thing as you.

I've yet to find the time to install 2007 Beta2, but I'm hoping its
better at these types of things.

Thanks for responding,

Michele


Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I agree that this is poor functionality. It's virtually impossible, at
normal Zooms, to tell the difference between a half-point and three-quarter
point border. I'm not sure how an improvement could be implemented, but
something needs to be done.

Here's something interesting to try. In a table with no borders, select one
cell. Go to Format | Borders and Shading and apply a half-point border to
the top of the cell and a 1.5 point border to the bottom of the cell. OK
out.

Display the Reveal Formatting task pane. With your bordered cell selected,
you'll see that Borders reports a 0.5 pt top border. If you select the cell
beneath that one, Borders will report a 1.5 pt top border.

If you select your original cell, return to Borders and Shading, and apply
side borders (any weight), you'll see that Reveal Formatting reports the
left border but not the right. The cell to the right of the original one
should at least report a left border, but it doesn't; what it does report is
"(no border)" for Top, Bottom, and Right, leaving you to assume there is
some kind of border on the left. sigh

--
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.

"MJones" wrote in message
oups.com...
Hi All,

Am I doing something wrong or is this poor functionality?

In Word 2003, in my table cell:

table table properties borders and shading borders tab apply
to: cell

Don't you think the current borders of the cell you're in should be
shown? I get no borders.

I'm just making a lot of forms and trying to match the borders to other
forms, but I can't see or remember what width and color of grey I used.

Thanks,

Michele