I have a table in calc with 28 columns and 51 rows. For each column I
manually set borders. For some columns the borders are thin and for some
other columns the borders are thick.
Now, I want to add a thin line for every fifth row, to make it easier to
read. I want to do that with conditional formatting. The first column
contains row numbers (not the as the number part of A5, for example), so I
thought something like IF(5×INT($A1/ 5)) should do it. If it's true I just
apply a style called "5". This is actually the third contidion. The first
one determines if A1 (in this example) is empty (then apply "Default"), the
second one if it is equal to 10×INT($A1/10)) (then Apply "10").

The problem is, that if I create a new style, in this case "5", and click
Borders, then make sure that the lower border is a thin one, the vertical
borders disappears! Ok, that's not strange, so I investigated the whole
thing a bit more and I found that when I click a border twice, it becomes
gray, so I thought that would mean "leave it as it was". Problem solved, I
thought, but it wasn't! The vertical borders still disappeared wherever the
"5" style was applied! Is this a bug? or is this task just impossible?

Of course I could draw the borders manually by just highlighting a five row
range and apply the right borders, then another one and apply a thicker
border, then highlight all ten of those and copy the format over and over
again, but I want this to happen automatically as I add new rows, once I
added the conditional format to every cell that I think is going to be used
in this case, in this case a few couple of hundreds.

So, is this a bug or did I just misunderstand everything?

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