[Dba-office] Interesting Word table problem

Yes, that's right. But, formatting some of the cells doesn't perform as
expected. It applies the format to the entire row. I had Show/Hide enabled
and I wasn't selecting anything but the individual cell.

Susan H.

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:08 PM, John R Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> I've made forms like that in the past and have not had any issues. Format
> only the cell not the row. I know that is obvious but sometimes... ;-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-office-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan
> Harkins
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:31 AM
> To: dba-office at databaseadvisors.com
> Subject: [Dba-office] Interesting Word table problem
>
> A reader sent me a Word document that's comprised of multiple tables
> formatted to look like a paper form. He used a table to insert labels and
> used the border to create underscores.
>
> Name ____________________________
>
> Where Name and the underscore are two cells in the same row of a table.
>
> When applying the Bottom Border attribute to some of the cells, Word
> applies
> the underscore to all of the cells in the row, instead of only the selected
> cell.
>
> All of the cells look exactly the same. I even used Format Painter to
> format
> the culprit cells using a good cell. Eventually, I was able to work around
> it, by splitting, underscoring, and then merging the culprit cells back to
> a
> single. But, that shouldn't be necessary and I'd like to know what caused
> this.
>
> Has anyone run into this before and resolved it rather than skirting around
> it?
>
> Thanks!
> Susan H.
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