Susan Harkins
ssharkins at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 10:38:51 CST 2015
Tina, I wasn't able to reproduce the problem. I did research online and learned that it's thought to be a remnant of merged and then unmerged cells, but I couldn't make it happen. What I didn't do was delete the row and recreate it, which probably makes more sense -- remove the corruption rather than working around it. Susan H. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Tina Norris Fields < tinanfields at torchlake.com> wrote: > 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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Dba-office mailing list > Dba-office at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-office >