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This problem pertains to Word for Office 2007 running under Windows Vista.
I've created a table that's about the size of a letter sheet. There are six rows and two primary columns, but I have split some columns to create a total of about 18 cells. The outside border is continuous.
When I try to apply a 3/4-point weight to the inside and outside borders (All Borders), not all of them change. Some go to 3/4-point, but others remain at what looks like the 1/2-point default value. Even if I go into one section of the table and specify, say, a horizontal inside border line, and try to make it 3/4-point, it will not go to 3/4-point. Print Preview and actual printing-out confirm what I see on the screen. The only thing I am able to do is to give the entire table a 1/2-point border weight to be consistent, but I really want them all to be bolder.
I can easily invoke No Border, and that works. It's just trying to go to a border point size other than 1/2-point that doesn't function.
I've worked with tables for years and have never had this problem before.
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Thanks, Doug.
Those cells are full of text now, of course, all meticulously positioned and justified, with graphics , etc., etc. However, I may be able to create an empty table along the lines of the one I have and simply paste my work in there. Wish me luck.
Well, well. On a whim, I put my .docx on a flash drive and plugged it into my wife's Windows 7 computer. I was able to highlight the entire table and set the line width to 3/4 point. Looks fine now on my Vista machine. Perhaps an unadvertised bug fix between Office 2007 and Office 2010? I'm happy.
I am not sure that I can tell the difference between 3/4 point and 1/2 point, but using a 6pt border here to test, I find that if I apply such a border to the table before splitting any cells, when I do later split cells, the border that result from the split automatically inherits the border that was applied to the whole table.
Therefore, I would suggest that if you want uniform borders, you should apply the required width of border before splitting the cells.