Re: Table ruling troubles

["Sarah O'Keefe" <okeefe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dina,

When you import a Word table into FrameMaker, the lines in the table are
rendered as custom lines, not as part of the Table Designer table
definition.

This causes the behavior you've observed: applying the table format to an
existing table doesn't remove the extra lines (because they are custom
lines, which you must remove using the Custom Ruling and Shading dialog
box).

When you create a new table, you get the lines you want, because the
settings in the Table Designer are used.

My rule of thumb is to apply "From Table" to all attributes in the Custom
Ruling and Shading dialog box immediately after spotting a table imported
from Word. This works before or after applying the table format.

HTH.

Sarah

>Hi folks.
>
>We covered this last week on Framers, and I read the posts and followed
>them, and I still cannot get this to work without manual overrides.
>
>First: FM 5.5.3 on Win 95.
>
>Here's the thing:  I have changed my Table Format A to have no inside column
>lines (set to None from Table Designer).
>But even when I re-apply the table format to an existing table (these have
>been once-upon-a-time imported from Word if that matters), the column lines
>stay put.
>
>If I create  a new table using the format, works great.  But with an
>existing table, I must go in and manually alter the ruling using the Custom
>Ruling & Shading dialog.
>
>Any thoughts??
>
>
>Dina
>
>Dina Davidson
>Technical Publications Coordinator
>Xantrex Technology Inc.
><mailto:dinad@xantrex.com>
>
>
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