[Dba-office] Interesting Word table problem

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.
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