Bon Jour Jean-Guy,

I have not experienced the "border problem" with Word Xp,
but there are often times when borders do not behave as expected.

Any border that you format belongs to BOTH the cells that share it.
If you delete a column (in my experience), the top and bottom borders
of the deleted cells disappear but the left/right borders remain attached
to the neighbour cells.

Now those neighbour cells THEMSELVES become neighbours,
and if their borders were different, there is a format conflict on
their (new) common border. There seems to be a hierarchy of borders
that determines which 'format' wins.

When you look at the Ruler for a table, do not forget the cell (text)
margins.
It is to the text content that the Ruler applies. When you compare the
alignment
of the table with the text above and below it, the alignment is such that
the TEXT
margins WITHIN the table match the MARGINS of the text above and below -
giving a 'cleaner' appearance to the page.

J'espère que cela vous aide!
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Amitiés,
Pat Garard
Australia

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