RH8 table lines not behaving in new style

[Guest]

We want our table style to be solid black lines, 1 pt in width, 3 pts padding all around.  The new default in RH8 is the classic HTML style instead of the 1 pt black lines from RH7...! 

So I created a style for Tables in my custom style sheet and even though I select 'all borders' in the drop down with black 1pt lines I only seem to be affecting the table border, not the cells.  ??

When I try selecting Horizontal or Vertical borders, I lose lines...not gain them.  How do I set this for all cell borders/table boarders and make it work?

Thank you very much!

[Peter Grainge]

The table editor is a bit of a challenge.

I found the easiest way is to apply borders to Top Left and Bottom Right, as shown in your screen shot. That will give you the same borders all around. Then you can apply a border to just the table, rather than the cells.

Play with this in a test project.

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[Guest]

Hi Peter!

The point is...that doesn't work for me.  When I select 'all borders' I get only Table borders...and no cell borders.  That's what I was trying to show with the arrows...the cell borders are missing.  Very strange...??

[Peter Grainge]

I knew I would have trouble with you! Sink some Dissident and then read again.

Don't use All Borders, use the two options I mentioned (just above All Borders). First one, then the other.

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[Guest]

Peter, wish I did have some Dissident!  This would be less painful!

I need to have borders on all cells.  When I use your Top Left corner and Bottom Right corner options, it only keeps one of them at a time and its for the table only.

I simply want all cells/table bordered in 1 pt black solid lines.  And to be able to click that wonderful "Apply global table style' button and have it 'fix' any existing table that does not conform.

I'm beginning to think that is not possible....

[Peter Grainge]

I'll try to explain it better tomorrow.

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[Guest]

pleasant dreams!  and thanks for your help Peter...you know I appreciate it!

[kmaddox1]

Just a thought...which may or may not help.

Have you tried using the "SimpleGridBlack" table template that comes with RH8? If you haven't already, you can apply it via Table Styles. Be sure to click Clean Table Inline Formatting to get rid of preexisting definitions. To get the results you describe, I had to manually apply this style to each table when converting from RH7 (a huge, albeit mindless, pain), but once that's done, you can reformat all tables on the fly simply by updating the Table Style definition.

[Guest]

Boy...that looks a lot like what we want to do!  Let me check that out...and thanks for the tip on the 'clean table inline formatting'...thank you!!!!