Hi,

I am having trouble with incomplete borders (using Word 2002 SP3 on
WinXpProf SP2). I put some borders around a paragraph that is in a table
cell (not around the cell itself!). The rest of the table has no borders.
Sometime the border of the paragraph is a complete box with four similar
sides, and sometimes the right side border of the box is missing, and the
left side border is only half the width. I found some sort of solution, but
I would like to know if there is an explanation that can help me do things
easier.

You can reproduce an example of my problem like this:

1: incomplete border:
Insert a table. Select the table and turn off al the borders. Then type some
text in one of the cells. Select the text (not the entire cell) and then in
the borders/shading dialog define a border around it, and apply to the
paragraph. The border around the paragraph is incomplete.

2: complete border:
Insert a table. (Do NOT change the table borders right now). Then type some
text in one of the cells. Select the text (not the entire cell) and then in
the borders/shading dialog define a border around it, and apply to the
paragraph. NOW select the whole table, and turn off all table borders. The
border around the paragraph remains complete.

This is a trial and error solution, which has the problem that I have a lot
of tables that already have their borders turned off. I want to apply some
borders around paragraphs in those tables, but end up with them incomplete,
or have to rebuild the tables. I suspect that there is a difference
somewhere in the properties of both tables, and maybe I can edit that
afterwards, so I can fix the borders in the borderless tables.

Any ideas greatly appreciated!

Jeroen Verburg