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Tiny gaps in table borders because of merged cells - bug ?
I think I have found a bug (famous quote ?). Anyway, the problem is
tiny gaps that appear in bottom table borders when a cell in the row is merged with a cell in the row above. Create a table with 3 columns and 3 rows. Merge the left hand cells in rows 2 and 3. Turn on bottom borders across all of row 3. To see the gaps, turn of table gridlines. There are tiny gaps at the column boundaries. You might need to refresh the display to remove some temporary display artifacts. I have found the same bug in Word 2003 (Windows XP) and in Word 2004 (Office Mac 2004). On the Mac the gap is a single pixel wide. The only fix I have found is to insert another row underneath and add a top border to it. Setting the row height to almost zero makes the new row virtually invisible. But, I think there has to be a better way. I added a post to Woody's Lounge but the above fix was the best idea people came up with. Here is a link to the post on the Lounge. http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...ts&Main=631482 GarryB |
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Tiny gaps in table borders because of merged cells - bug ?
G'Day Gbsaab,
I cannot reproduce the problem in either Word Xp or Word 2003 - even at 500% zoom. Critical test - do the gaps print? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ wrote in message oups.com... I think I have found a bug (famous quote ?). Anyway, the problem is tiny gaps that appear in bottom table borders when a cell in the row is merged with a cell in the row above. Create a table with 3 columns and 3 rows. Merge the left hand cells in rows 2 and 3. Turn on bottom borders across all of row 3. To see the gaps, turn of table gridlines. There are tiny gaps at the column boundaries. You might need to refresh the display to remove some temporary display artifacts. I have found the same bug in Word 2003 (Windows XP) and in Word 2004 (Office Mac 2004). On the Mac the gap is a single pixel wide. The only fix I have found is to insert another row underneath and add a top border to it. Setting the row height to almost zero makes the new row virtually invisible. But, I think there has to be a better way. I added a post to Woody's Lounge but the above fix was the best idea people came up with. Here is a link to the post on the Lounge. http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...ts&Main=631482 GarryB |
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Tiny gaps in table borders because of merged cells - bug ?
I thought I couldn't reproduce it but then realized I had misinterpreted
Gbsaab's instructions and was merging cells horizontally rather than vertically. I can reproduce it in Word 2003 but didn't test whether it prints or not. -- 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. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... G'Day Gbsaab, I cannot reproduce the problem in either Word Xp or Word 2003 - even at 500% zoom. Critical test - do the gaps print? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ wrote in message oups.com... I think I have found a bug (famous quote ?). Anyway, the problem is tiny gaps that appear in bottom table borders when a cell in the row is merged with a cell in the row above. Create a table with 3 columns and 3 rows. Merge the left hand cells in rows 2 and 3. Turn on bottom borders across all of row 3. To see the gaps, turn of table gridlines. There are tiny gaps at the column boundaries. You might need to refresh the display to remove some temporary display artifacts. I have found the same bug in Word 2003 (Windows XP) and in Word 2004 (Office Mac 2004). On the Mac the gap is a single pixel wide. The only fix I have found is to insert another row underneath and add a top border to it. Setting the row height to almost zero makes the new row virtually invisible. But, I think there has to be a better way. I added a post to Woody's Lounge but the above fix was the best idea people came up with. Here is a link to the post on the Lounge. http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...ts&Main=631482 GarryB |
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Tiny gaps in table borders because of merged cells - bug ?
Hi Suzanne,
Doesn't Word use the printer driver when it displays on-screen? Maybe different printers? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I thought I couldn't reproduce it but then realized I had misinterpreted Gbsaab's instructions and was merging cells horizontally rather than vertically. I can reproduce it in Word 2003 but didn't test whether it prints or not. -- 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. "Pat Garard" apgarard-bigpond:net:au wrote in message ... G'Day Gbsaab, I cannot reproduce the problem in either Word Xp or Word 2003 - even at 500% zoom. Critical test - do the gaps print? -- Regards, Pat Garard Melbourne, Australia _______________________ wrote in message oups.com... I think I have found a bug (famous quote ?). Anyway, the problem is tiny gaps that appear in bottom table borders when a cell in the row is merged with a cell in the row above. Create a table with 3 columns and 3 rows. Merge the left hand cells in rows 2 and 3. Turn on bottom borders across all of row 3. To see the gaps, turn of table gridlines. There are tiny gaps at the column boundaries. You might need to refresh the display to remove some temporary display artifacts. I have found the same bug in Word 2003 (Windows XP) and in Word 2004 (Office Mac 2004). On the Mac the gap is a single pixel wide. The only fix I have found is to insert another row underneath and add a top border to it. Setting the row height to almost zero makes the new row virtually invisible. But, I think there has to be a better way. I added a post to Woody's Lounge but the above fix was the best idea people came up with. Here is a link to the post on the Lounge. http://www.wopr.com/cgi-bin/w3t/show...ts&Main=631482 GarryB |
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Tiny gaps in table borders because of merged cells - bug ?
Pat, Suzanne,
The gaps do print. They also appear on the screen in Office 2004 for Mac OS X. The screen display in Mac OS X is basically postscript. Still, there might be a printer driver connection. Garry |
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