"""What you're seeing is not a border but the blanked area that corresponds to the borders in the adjoining cells. """

^I'm sorry I'm not understanding the blanked area part. The 2nd cell is blank. It's not supposed to have anything...??


""You would get a similar result if the border was, say, black - a white blanked-out area would still appear below column 2.""

^Yes I know. I've tried various colors. Green is actually the final color for the borders, supposedly. All colors still result to having the stubborn white in the 2nd cell. Well actually when I bordered the 1st cell it bordered all the cells... boo


"""It's only visible because of the background shading you have for the document. If it bothers you, give column 2 a bottom border than has the same colour as the background shading you have for the document."""

^Sadly you can't do this if the background is gradient, unless you can border using gradient? o_o

^I attached images...
for the GREEN TABLE....I have done what you suggested. the 2nd cell has the blue background but... well as you can see the border for the 1st and 3rd are whole.

for the BLACK TABLE....It's a new document. It works for this table to have borders for only cells 1 and 3. It doesn't have that stubborn white line....(as per instruction to me I can't make a new table on a new document. I have to edit the stubborn table in the given document, sadly)

by the way, I forgot to add that the troubled documents has a table within a table is this what's causing the problem? Please check again with the doc I attached before. Since for the BLACK TABLE...the background for that is just colored shape.

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	Table 3.jpg (9.0 KB, 20 views)