Writer Guide

Borders have three components: where they go, what they look like,
and how much space is left around them.
• Line arrangement specifies where the borders go. If a group of
cells is selected, the border will be applied only to those cells. You
can specify individually the style of the border for the outside
edges of the selected cells as well as for the the cell divisions.
OOo provides 5 default arrangements but you can just as easily
click on the line you want to customize in the User-defined area to
get exactly what you want. When multiple cells are selected the
user defined area allow you to select the edges of the selection as
well as the cell dividers. Clicking at the intersection of the lines
you can modify multiple borders simultaneously (in Figure 275
below the right edge and horizontal cells separators are modified
with a single operation.)
Note
When the selected group of cells have different styles of border
the User-defined area shows this border as a gray line. You can
override this with a new border style (first click), leave the
borders as they are (second click) or delete all the borders (third
click).
Figure 275: Table Format dialog box: Borders page
• Line specifies what the border looks like: the style and color.
There are a number of different styles and colors to choose from.
The Line Style and Color will apply to those borders highlighted
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