-------- Original Message -------- From: Alan Mead <[email protected]> To: Dave Barton <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:49:42 -0600
> Why does adding a border to a table in Writer change the cell margins? > > I paste RTF tables into Writer documents a lot. If you compare the top > (unformatted) and bottom (borders added) tables, you can see that the > first row and the bottom row are slightly indented the "C" in > "Construct" and in "Cautiousness" have been moved slightly to the right > (which has caused the word "Cautiousness" to wrap) while the other two > rows are flush against the left border. This looks tacky. How to I > prevent LO from changing the cell margin when I add borders? > > FWIW, here are some things I've tried. I have no idea how to affect the > cell margins, because if I go Table -> Borders, the "Spacing to > contents" is all zero's. The style of a regular table is "Table > Contents" but changing the style to "Table Contents" has no effect. > Also, highlighting the text and selecting "Remove direct formatting" has > no effect. > > I think you can duplicate this with a regularly-created table by > creating the table, removing all borders, changing the spacing to > contents to zero, then adding borders. > > -Alan Your email suggests that you _may_ have attached images to your post. If so, the list servers have removed them so we can't compare what you are describing. I tried unsuccessfully to duplicate the issue with LO 4.4.0.2 on Win 7 x64. Can you tell us which version of LO you are using, upload an illustration to a file sharing service and post the link back to the list. Dave -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
