Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
Sat Feb 14 09:58:18 CST 2015
I've never run into that problem. I will play with some table cells and rows and see if I can replicate the problem. Thanks for the puzzle. TNF Tina Norris Fields tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com 231-322-2787 On 2/13/2015 5:02 PM, Susan Harkins wrote: > 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> Dba-office mailing list >> Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dba-office mailing list >> Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com >> http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >> > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >