One way to handle this is to add narrow "spacer" columns between your text
columns and omit the borders on those headings. To make them as narrow as
you may want, you may need to reduce the cell margins to 0".

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"Grant" wrote in message
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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