Top Navigational Bar

Different Ways To Use Border Lines And Tables
DocumentID: 603180
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:29:42 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Solutions: Added with the 01/19/90 release of WordPerfect was the option to change border styles (i.e., graphics or tables). This option is found by pressing Shift-F8, 4, 8. This option to change the border styles can prove very helpful to table users who do not want to block and change the appearance of the lines in a table.

Changing the Border options will affect the borders of lines in tables and graphics boxes. It will affect only those tables or graphics boxes that appear in the document after the Border Option code. If users want the entire document to use these new settings, they can insert the Border Option code either at the beginning of the document or in Document Initial Codes. If users want to specify the sizes of the borders to be used in all newly created documents, they can insert this code in Initial Codes in Setup.

Although users cannot enter the exact thickness of a particular line, they can change the widths of the lines using Border Options. This option lets users choose the exact width of each type of line (Single, Double, Extra Thick, etc.). Users can also select the shading (darkness) of the lines. In addition, users can specify the length of each line and the space between each line for dashed and dotted lines.

1.      One customer used this option to change the appearance of double lines to look like single lines. They changed the line thickness to half of what it currently was, and changed the space between the lines to 0". The document screen will still display double lines, but the document will view and print as single lines. This will change all double lines in the document to single lines.

2.      Another customer wanted to set the width of the lines in a table to a specific setting. This was accomplished by the following steps:
      a.      Move the cursor before the table definition code.
      b.      Enter the Format: Border Options screen.
      c.      Set the appropriate option for the desired width.

3.      To change the default setting for a table to print without any lines, but graphics images still print, customers can place a border option code in Initial Settings and change the single and double lines to 0 for the percentage of gray.

4.      When Border Options are set as Single, 0% Shading, the tables will not show the single lines. In order to view or print the lines, set the shading back to 100%.

5.      Another customer is having problems making a single line table the same width as a horizontal line. When the table and the horizontal line print out the lines are different widths. The customer would like an option in Tables to be able to tell it how wide the lines should be, like setting the width of a graphic line. This is an enhancement request. However, as a workaround the customer can go make changes with the Border Options menu. This will enable the customer to change the size of the borders.

6.      Another customer wanted a white division line between two rows in a table. The customer set the lines to none but this doesn't leave a white space. To create this, the customer used thick lines for the top line style in each of the cells in the row below where the "white division line" should be. Then the customer went above the table, entered Border Options, changed Thick to be the thickness of the white line that was needed and changed the percentage to 0%.

Problem 1:
If a user sets a table border option code, creates a table, views the document, then sets a new border option code from within the table, the table does not look correct on the screen. Control characters appear in the first cell, followed by what appears to be a soft page break. The characters do not appear in Reveal Codes and they disappear if the screen is rewritten. The document can be viewed, printed, and saved with no apparent problems.

Answer 1:
This is working as designed. You cannot have two border codes side by side. When the border option code is entered in the middle of the table, the code automatically goes to the beginning of the table. If there is already a border code in the document, then there will be two conflicting codes side by side. It would be better to have just one border option code and then delete the border code you don't need. If you have two border option codes in the file, the table does not look correct, but if you rewrite the screen, the file will rewrite itself correctly.

Problem 2:
The customer has three tables in a document; the first and second tables are missing the inside lines when they are printed and viewed. These lines do show up on the document screen, and the Table Edit lines shows that these lines do exist. The customer can block and move one of these tables to document 2 and all lines appear in View Document.

Answer 2:
This feature is working as designed. The problem was caused by using Border Option instead of Figure Options. When the customer deleted the [Brdr Opt] code, the problem went away. Border Options controls the thickness and shading of graphically created lines. The user was instructed to use the [Fig Opt] and set border line styles to None.

Answer:

Details:


Product specifications, packaging, technical support and information (*Specifications*) refer to theUnited States retail English version only. Specifications for other versions may vary. All Specifications, claims, features, representations, and/or comparisons provided are correct to the best of our knowledge of the date of publication, but are subject to change without notice.OUR MAXIMUM AGGREGATE LIABILITY TO YOU AND THAT OF OUR DEALERS AND SUPPLIERS IS LIMITED. IT SHALL NOTEXCEED THE AMOUNT YOU PAID TO ACCESS THE INFORMATION. SEE LEGAL DISCLAIMER.