Re: [libreoffice-users] [SOLVED] print table without internal borders

Thank you!!!
That helped and I was finally able to get it right.
(I did not sent a file attachment, since to the best of my knowledge, 
that is "prohibited" by the netiquette / and attachments are stripped 
automatically; maybe next time)

Thomas

(2014/05/13 14:24), Dave Barton wrote:
> Thomas wrote:
> > (2014/05/12 20:19), Brian Barker wrote:
> > > At 19:45 12/05/2014 +0900, you wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what you can mean by "etc.": what else did you do, then?
> > >
> > > > ... but so far no setting has changed how the table looks in the 
> > > > "print preview".
> > >
> > > If you turn off the lines for a table, you should see the result in 
> > > Print Preview.
> > >
> > > > I just cannot figure it out.
> > >
> > > A few suggestions:
> > >
> > > o If you select a cell range before you turn off table boundaries, 
> > > your action will affect only those cells: other cells will retain 
> > > their borders. Is that what you did?
> > >
> > > o Do you have a single table or are there actually a number of 
> > > adjacent tables? (If you inherited this document, you may not know 
> > > how it was constructed.) If so, you'll need to adjust the borders on 
> > > all of them.
> > >
> > > o Do you have a table within another table?
> > >
> > > o Do you really have not a table but a set of frames? Or frames 
> > > within a table?
> > >
> > > o Do you actually have a picture of a table, perhaps imported from 
> > > another application?
> > >
> > > I trust this helps.
> > >
> > > Brian Barker - privately
> > Maybe I need to specify:
> > I myself created ONE table in a Writer document.
> > No images, no frames etc.
> > Started with 6 columns and about 30 rows.
> > Joined a few cells in the upper portion (to make more room for 
> > entries like "address" etc).
> > Below there are the 6 colums and 14 rows.
> > For THIS block - part of the ONE table - I would like to make the 
> > lines inside the table disappear (or at least NOT print)
> > and retain only the border that surrounds the whole table.
> >
> > Yet, (so far) regardless of what cell/block of cells I select and 
> > what option pertaining to "borders", "lines" etc. I choose ...
> > NONE has ANY effect on the appearance of that table.
> > Is that not a little strange?
>
> Hi Thomas,
>
> What makes it "/strange/", or I should say difficult, is that we 
> cannot see your document or know what options you are using.
> I am attaching a sample document (which may be removed by the list 
> server) in the form of a mini-tutorial. Please follow the steps in 
> that document using a new document of your own and write back to the 
> list (not directly to me) and let us know if this works for you or 
> not. This will give us some idea if the problem is in your existing 
> document, or in the options you have been using.
>
> Regards
> Dave - (Writing Publicly Brian)


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