print table without internal borders

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#1

Good evening
I am sure, this is a stupid question.
I have a table (cover sheet for medical records) with all sorts of lines
at the top and all around.
However, I would prefer NOT to print the borders between some 30
questions below that.
Only an outer border around the whole thing.

I checked "table properties", format etc., set the area to "no lines"
etc. but so far no setting has
changed how the table looks in the "print preview".

The documentation also gives only the explanations about table
properties etc.

Surely there is a very simple trick. I just cannot figure it out.
If anybody has the time to give me a hint, I would be very grateful.

Thank you.
Thomas

#2

(2014/05/12 20:19), Brian Barker wrote:

I'm not sure what you can mean by "etc.": what else did you do, then?

... but so far no setting has changed how the table looks in the "print preview".

If you turn off the lines for a table, you should see the result in Print Preview.

I just cannot figure it out.

A few suggestions:

o If you select a cell range before you turn off table boundaries, your action will affect only those cells: other cells will retain their borders. Is that what you did?

o Do you have a single table or are there actually a number of adjacent tables? (If you inherited this document, you may not know how it was constructed.) If so, you'll need to adjust the borders on all of them.

o Do you have a table within another table?

o Do you really have not a table but a set of frames? Or frames within a table?

o Do you actually have a picture of a table, perhaps imported from another application?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker - privately

Maybe I need to specify:
I myself created ONE table in a Writer document.
No images, no frames etc.
Started with 6 columns and about 30 rows.
Joined a few cells in the upper portion (to make more room for entries like "address" etc).
Below there are the 6 colums and 14 rows.
For THIS block - part of the ONE table - I would like to make the lines inside the table disappear (or at least NOT print)
and retain only the border that surrounds the whole table.

Yet, (so far) regardless of what cell/block of cells I select and what option pertaining to "borders", "lines" etc. I choose ...
NONE has ANY effect on the appearance of that table.
Is that not a little strange?

#3

Thomas wrote:

(2014/05/12 20:19), Brian Barker wrote:

I'm not sure what you can mean by "etc.": what else did you do, then?

... but so far no setting has changed how the table looks in the
"print preview".

If you turn off the lines for a table, you should see the result in
Print Preview.

I just cannot figure it out.

A few suggestions:

o If you select a cell range before you turn off table boundaries,
your action will affect only those cells: other cells will retain
their borders. Is that what you did?

o Do you have a single table or are there actually a number of
adjacent tables? (If you inherited this document, you may not know
how it was constructed.) If so, you'll need to adjust the borders on
all of them.

o Do you have a table within another table?

o Do you really have not a table but a set of frames? Or frames
within a table?

o Do you actually have a picture of a table, perhaps imported from
another application?

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker - privately

Maybe I need to specify:
I myself created ONE table in a Writer document.
No images, no frames etc.
Started with 6 columns and about 30 rows.
Joined a few cells in the upper portion (to make more room for entries
like "address" etc).
Below there are the 6 colums and 14 rows.
For THIS block - part of the ONE table - I would like to make the
lines inside the table disappear (or at least NOT print)
and retain only the border that surrounds the whole table.

Yet, (so far) regardless of what cell/block of cells I select and what
option pertaining to "borders", "lines" etc. I choose ...
NONE has ANY effect on the appearance of that table.
Is that not a little strange?

Hi Thomas,

What makes it "/strange/", or I should say difficult, is that we cannot
see your document or know what options you are using.
I am attaching a sample document (which may be removed by the list
server) in the form of a mini-tutorial. Please follow the steps in that
document using a new document of your own and write back to the list
(not directly to me) and let us know if this works for you or not. This
will give us some idea if the problem is in your existing document, or
in the options you have been using.

Regards
Dave - (Writing Publicly Brian)

#4

Thank you!!!
That helped and I was finally able to get it right.
(I did not sent a file attachment, since to the best of my knowledge, that is "prohibited" by the netiquette / and attachments are stripped automatically; maybe next time)

Thomas

(2014/05/13 14:24), Dave Barton wrote: