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Old 02-04-2016, 08:26 PM
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Hello.

I created the table from scratch. I need the 1st and 3rd cell to be have borders but the stubborn bottom border kept making the 2nd cell white.

First table - Applying color to all borders worked
Second table - Removing all borders worked
Third table - Adding bottom border on 1st and 3rd only. If you zoom in closely you can see the gridline for the 2nd cell SO technically there is no bottom border already BUT why in the world is it still white? D:



I've tried
1. manually placing each border under border&shading (experimented with border tab, page border tab, shading tab)
2. unchecking 'border line's in autocorrect
3. Borders on Page layout tab
4. I can't find the answer anywhere on google I can only find the grey line problem or the double border problem. Tried what they did also but it's not a horizontal line.


Solution I found BUT** I'm personally NOT ALLOWED to add a row below to use the top border instead. So I can only work with 1 row table
Please help.
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Old 02-04-2016, 10:13 PM
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Your post is as clear as mud. Your attachment depicts 3 tables:
• Table 1 has borders all round
• Table 2 has no borders;
• Table 3 has a bottom border.
You refer to "bottom border on 1st and 3rd only" of Table 3, but that has a bottom border on all cells. You also say "If you zoom in closely you can see the gridline for the 2nd cell" but such zooming in is not possible with your attachment, which is only an image. When I add a bottom border to just columns 1 & 3 in a 3-column table, no border appears in column 2.

Without actually seeing the problem document, it can be difficult for anyone to diagnose the issue you're having. Can you attach a document to a post with some representative tables (delete anything sensitive)? You do this via the paperclip symbol on the 'Go Advanced' tab at the bottom of this screen.
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Old 02-04-2016, 10:46 PM
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I have three tables in the image just to show that the table can still have ALL BORDER and NO BORDERS at all. The 3rd table is the main problem.


""You refer to "bottom border on 1st and 3rd only" of Table 3, but that has a bottom border on all cells.""

^Because that is the problem as I said...the 2nd cell has no borders at all but there is a white line still showing.


"""You also say "If you zoom in closely you can see the gridline for the 2nd cell" but such zooming in is not possible with your attachment, which is only an image. """

^you can actually zoom your browser....or download the image and zoom it in. You don't really need to zoom it in to see that the 2nd cell has a gridline on it. I was just trying to help out for those who can't see the gridline.



""When I add a bottom border to just columns 1 & 3 in a 3-column table, no border appears in column 2.""

^That's because you have a table that's working properly....



I have attached a page of the file with only the tables in it. If any of you guys can help tweek it and find out what the problem it, then thank you!!! I've scratched my head one too many times from trying already.
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Old 02-04-2016, 11:27 PM
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What you're seeing is not a border but the blanked area that corresponds to the borders in the adjoining cells. You would get a similar result if the border was, say, black - a white blanked-out area would still appear below column 2. 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.
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Old 02-05-2016, 12:12 AM
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"""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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Old 02-05-2016, 05:15 AM
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"""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...??
It's not a white border - it's a blank space where the border would be if you had one. It's there to allow for the fact you have borders in the adjoining cells and, as such, it's the same thickness as the border would be.
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"""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?
AFAIK you can't apply a gradient to either a table or a border in Word 2010, so that's not an issue.

Regardless, you can't prevent the behaviour and what I have suggested is the only viable workaround you're likely to find.
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oooooh okay ><

Well thanks so much for helping out~
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