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Differences in borders at page break in merged cells
I have a document consisting of a large amount of tables. The tables contains some merged cells and may differ in number of rows but are otherwise using the same layout.
I started by creating one table and then I have just made cpoies of it adding/removing rows. The table has a thick outer border and thin lines between the cells. However, the borders will look different in different tables in the case when a page break occurs within a merged cell. Notice that Table 2 gets a thick line where the merged cell breaks over pages, but Table 1 does not. Table 2 has been created by copying Table 1, splitting the merged cell into the same number of rows as it is spanning over, then deleting the middle row of these and finally merged the two cells again. I would either want to have it as Table 1 or to have no line at all dividing the merged cell (not a thick line at least) Last edited by Sudlav; 05-22-2013 at 11:53 PM. Reason: Clarification of goal |
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Hi Sudlav,
The difference in behaviour is probably attributable to the tables using different Table Styles. Without seeing the actual document, however, I can't be certain.
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Anyway, I solved the problem for this time by craeting a new table with proper formatting while recording it as a macro, I then modified the macro to loop over all tables in the document applying the same format (but making it a bit smarter to handle different number of rows and also the interior formatting that is different in the cells). Now the document looks exactly as I want it to be. But I am still confused why this happened, it is 100% repeatable by creating Table 2 in the same way as described in my previous post. I forgot some information that might be useful: I do use Word 2010, but it is running in compatability mode as my customer's template is of an older version. Unfortunately I cannot share any part of the document as it is company confidential (I cannot even share after deleting the contents because also the template contains company confidential information for my customer). |
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