How To Set The Width Of Table, Graphics Lines

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 1:31:24 PM

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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: Users can change the thickness of border lines in tables or graphics with the following steps: 1. Move the cursor before the table or graphic definition code. 2. Enter into the Format: Border Options screen (Shift-F8, 4, 8). 3. Set the appropriate option for the desired width. The Border Options feature was added to WP in the 01/19/90 release. Although you cannot enter the exact thickness of a particular line, this option lets you choose the exact width of each type of line (Single, Double, Extra Thick, etc.). You can also select the shading (darkness) of the lines. In addition, you can specify the length of each line and the space between each line for dashed and dotted lines. Changing the border options will affect only the borders of lines in tables and graphics boxes that appear 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 (Home, Home, Home, Up Arrow, Shift-F8, 4, 8) or in Document Initial Codes (Shift-F8, 3, 2, Shift-F8, 4, 8). If you want to specify the sizes of the borders to be used in all newly created documents, you can insert this code in Initial Codes (Shift-F1, I, C, Shift-F8, O, B). Once it is inserted, you will not need to alter the Border option in future documents. However, documents that were previously created will need this code inserted. Additional Information: Changing Default Of Table Lines From Double To Single To have your tables default with a single line border instead of double lines, take the following steps: 1. Go into Setup, Initial Settings, Initial Codes (Shift-F1, 4, 5) 2. Press Format, Other, Border Options (Shift-F8, 4, 8) 3. Select Double (2), set the Width to .006" and the Spacing Between 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. Table, Graphics Box Lines Will Not Printing When Border Options (Shift-F8, 4) are set as Single, 0% Shading, your tables will not show the single lines. In order to view or print the lines, set the shading back to 100%. If you wish to change the default setting for a table to print without any lines, but still want the graphics images to print, you can place a border option code in Initial Settings and change the single and double lines to 0 for the percentage of gray. Incorrect Display If Table Border Option Set Inside Table If you set a Table Border Option code, create a table, view the document, then set 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. This occurs because 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.

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