IBM Lotus Symphony
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You can apply a variety of different cell borders to selected cells in a Lotus® Symphony™ Documents table and to the whole table. Other objects in Lotus Symphony Documentscan have user defined borders, too. For example, you can assign borders to page styles, to frames, and to inserted pictures or charts.
Select the cell or a block of cells in a Lotus Symphony Documents table.
Choose
.In the dialog, click the Borders tab.
Choose the border options you want to apply and click OK.
The options in the Line arrangement area can be used to apply multiple border styles.
Depending on the selection of cells, the area looks different.
Click one of the Default icons to set or reset multiple borders.
The thin gray lines inside an icon show the borders that will be reset or cleared.
The dark lines inside an icon show the lines that will be set using the selected line style and color.
The thick gray lines inside an icon show the lines that will not be changed.
Select a block of about 8x8 cells, then choose Layout - Cells - Borders.
Click the left icon to clear all lines. This removes all outer borders and all inner lines.
Click the second icon from the left to set an outer border and to remove all other lines.
Click the rightmost icon to set an outer border. The inner lines are not changed.
Now you can continue to see which lines the other icons will set or remove.
In the User defined area, you can click to set or remove individual lines. The preview shows lines in three different states.
Repeatedly click an edge or a corner to switch through the three different states.
Select a single cell in a Lotus Symphony Documents table, then choose Table - Table properties - Borders.
Select a thick line style.
To set a lower border, click the lower edge repeatedly until you see a thick line.
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All cells in a Lotus Symphony Documents table have at least a left and a lower line by default. Most cells on the table perimeter have more lines applied by default. |
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All lines that are shown in white in the preview will be removed from the cell. |