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March 18th, 2009, 11:40 PM
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Custom designed table borders????
Hi
I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!! 
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March 19th, 2009, 03:33 AM
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Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's
no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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March 20th, 2009, 01:06 AM
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Custom designed table borders????
Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how
to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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March 20th, 2009, 02:24 AM
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Custom designed table borders????
You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly
painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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March 24th, 2009, 10:00 PM
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Custom designed table borders????
bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me
then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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#6
March 25th, 2009, 01:34 PM
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Custom designed table borders????
I agree that you should use the best tool for your requirements. Please let
me point out, though, that Word was never designed or promoted as a "desktop publishing" program. It's a word processor. Microsoft does offer a DTP program, called Publisher, and Word is not that program. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. TimothyL wrote: bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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April 7th, 2009, 05:31 AM
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Timothy,
Table styles can be created. 1. In order to save any table style, first create a table (this includes rows and columns). 2. Select the whole table by its cross-in-a-box. Note: Table Tools tab and Design tab - selected on the ribbon. 3. Use the Table Styles group and click the 'down-arrow with a minus above'. This displays table styles. 4. At the bottom are 3 options. Select the New Table Style... 5. The Create New Style from Formatting dialog appears. 6. Format as desired. 7. Click OK. 8. Test by creating a new table and apply the new style to the selected table. -- I hope that this has been of assistance to you. Regards, Deirdre "Jay Freedman" wrote: I agree that you should use the best tool for your requirements. Please let me point out, though, that Word was never designed or promoted as a "desktop publishing" program. It's a word processor. Microsoft does offer a DTP program, called Publisher, and Word is not that program. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. TimothyL wrote: bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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April 7th, 2009, 02:26 PM
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Custom designed table borders????
I know it's a lot of effort to scroll down to the bottom of the post and
read the original question :-b but you really should have. You cannot create a custom table border in a table style, any more than you could do so without a table style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Deirdre Sykes wrote: Timothy, Table styles can be created. 1. In order to save any table style, first create a table (this includes rows and columns). 2. Select the whole table by its cross-in-a-box. Note: Table Tools tab and Design tab - selected on the ribbon. 3. Use the Table Styles group and click the 'down-arrow with a minus above'. This displays table styles. 4. At the bottom are 3 options. Select the New Table Style... 5. The Create New Style from Formatting dialog appears. 6. Format as desired. 7. Click OK. 8. Test by creating a new table and apply the new style to the selected table. I agree that you should use the best tool for your requirements. Please let me point out, though, that Word was never designed or promoted as a "desktop publishing" program. It's a word processor. Microsoft does offer a DTP program, called Publisher, and Word is not that program. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. TimothyL wrote: bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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April 7th, 2009, 11:22 PM
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Custom designed table borders????
No problem scrolling or reading, thank you.
The instructions are a simple way of formatting a table border (be it 1 or many columns or rows). As I wrote these instructions, this was proven. The dialog box for the new table styles provides various possibilities which can then be applied to format any table (this includes row and/or column borders plus shading). It does not provide any individual cell shading or individual cell border capabilities (this would have to be applied after selecting a table style for more enhancements - if necessary). -- I hope that this has been of assistance to you. Regards, Deirdre "Jay Freedman" wrote: I know it's a lot of effort to scroll down to the bottom of the post and read the original question :-b but you really should have. You cannot create a custom table border in a table style, any more than you could do so without a table style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Deirdre Sykes wrote: Timothy, Table styles can be created. 1. In order to save any table style, first create a table (this includes rows and columns). 2. Select the whole table by its cross-in-a-box. Note: Table Tools tab and Design tab - selected on the ribbon. 3. Use the Table Styles group and click the 'down-arrow with a minus above'. This displays table styles. 4. At the bottom are 3 options. Select the New Table Style... 5. The Create New Style from Formatting dialog appears. 6. Format as desired. 7. Click OK. 8. Test by creating a new table and apply the new style to the selected table. I agree that you should use the best tool for your requirements. Please let me point out, though, that Word was never designed or promoted as a "desktop publishing" program. It's a word processor. Microsoft does offer a DTP program, called Publisher, and Word is not that program. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. TimothyL wrote: bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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April 8th, 2009, 01:15 AM
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Custom designed table borders????
But if you had scrolled to the bottom, you would have seen that the OP
wanted BorderArt. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Deirdre Sykes" wrote in message ... No problem scrolling or reading, thank you. The instructions are a simple way of formatting a table border (be it 1 or many columns or rows). As I wrote these instructions, this was proven. The dialog box for the new table styles provides various possibilities which can then be applied to format any table (this includes row and/or column borders plus shading). It does not provide any individual cell shading or individual cell border capabilities (this would have to be applied after selecting a table style for more enhancements - if necessary). -- I hope that this has been of assistance to you. Regards, Deirdre "Jay Freedman" wrote: I know it's a lot of effort to scroll down to the bottom of the post and read the original question :-b but you really should have. You cannot create a custom table border in a table style, any more than you could do so without a table style. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Deirdre Sykes wrote: Timothy, Table styles can be created. 1. In order to save any table style, first create a table (this includes rows and columns). 2. Select the whole table by its cross-in-a-box. Note: Table Tools tab and Design tab - selected on the ribbon. 3. Use the Table Styles group and click the 'down-arrow with a minus above'. This displays table styles. 4. At the bottom are 3 options. Select the New Table Style... 5. The Create New Style from Formatting dialog appears. 6. Format as desired. 7. Click OK. 8. Test by creating a new table and apply the new style to the selected table. I agree that you should use the best tool for your requirements. Please let me point out, though, that Word was never designed or promoted as a "desktop publishing" program. It's a word processor. Microsoft does offer a DTP program, called Publisher, and Word is not that program. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. TimothyL wrote: bah sometimes I wonder why I even use Word. Well back to QuarkXpress for me then. I thought I would give the new version of Word a try and it is still no where even close to QuarkXpress when it comes to desktop publishing. Bye bye WORD!!! Thanks a lot for all your help though Suzanne!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You would have to create custom table borders in the same exceedingly painful way you would page borders, I'm afraid. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Yeah I have been to that site and it is not what I am looking for. I know how to apply and create custom PAGE borders. But I want to do it on TABLE borders and I do not think you can. Which to me is bullcrap as far as I am concerned!! You cannot have it all I guess.... Thanks for your responce... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Aside from choosing different line styles/colors for various sides, there's no customization provided for. But see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/BorderArt.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "TimothyL" wrote in message ... Hi I am trying to create a custom designed border that I can apply to any table I am in the Borders and Shading window on the Borders tab and I cannot figure out how to add a custom made/designed border. Any help would be appreciated.... Thanks!!
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