At 19:02 14/03/2023 -0400, Sara Mahoney wrote:
... i just wanted to know --- I'm aware that,
when making a table in a text document, those
grid lines by default don't print out when it's printed
I'm surprised that you say this, as - in my
installation of OpenOffice at least - the default
situation is that those table borders do indeed print.
Supposedly you can get them to print
but I don't
know how¸ I was a little mad when in print
preview, the lines weren't there and it didn't
look like a table anymore. The Excel has this command, ...
I'm hoping that you don't mean Excel, which is a
proprietary Microsoft product, but instead an
OpenOffice spreadsheet document. So you must mean
the Borders button and its associated drop-down
menu that appear in the Formatting toolbar when
you are editing a spreadsheet document.
... but the plain text documents don't. Is there
any possible way you could add this command to text?
No need: it's already there.
Or, please tell me where to find it? Cuz I'm lost
With the insertion point in the table, go to
Table | Table Properties... | Borders (or,
perhaps more simply, right-click in the table and
choose Table... | Borders). There you have a very
flexible interface that allows you to select
which cell borders print and which don't, as well
as their style, thickness, and colour. I
recommend that you experiment with this dialogue
to see how it all works. There is more
explanation of this under "Specifying table
borders" in Chapter 9, "Working with Tables", of
the Writer Guide, available from the web site.
Incidentally, this isn't relevant to what you
asked, but it is worth saying that tables can be
a very simple and effective formatting device in
text documents even when the appearance of a
table (and therefore its borders) are not what is required.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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