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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
Hi,
In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim |
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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
You can manually create a line, right-click, all the options are available. You
can also create a custom BorderArt. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi, In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim |
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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
Hi Mary,
Thanks for the reply - sorry but I just can't figure it out. Perhaps if I explain a little better what I'm after. I'm designing questionnaire forms and I want an invisible table to serve as a layout device to get other objects alligned in columns and rows. I'd like the bottom borders of all the cells to be a dotted line, to give horizontal rules accross the page. The only right click option which seems to give relevent options is Format Table, and in here you can specify the cell border colour, thickness etc - but not option for a dashed line. Border Art seems to only put a border round the entire table - not what I'm after. I know there are other ways of achieving what I want to do, using cell backgrounds or manually drawing lines. But we have hundreds of forms designed in Publisher 2007 which did allow dotted cell borders and we don't want to have to change them all. So at the moment this issue is blocking me from generally upgrading to 2010. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: You can manually create a line, right-click, all the options are available. You can also create a custom BorderArt. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi, In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim . |
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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
There isn't any alternative that I can find. The pattern option is not in 2010.
You can save a table in 2007 in the Content Library, it will be in the Page Parts in 2010. If the tables don't make into the Page Parts they still will be in the Content Library; a hidden file in the Local folder. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, Thanks for the reply - sorry but I just can't figure it out. Perhaps if I explain a little better what I'm after. I'm designing questionnaire forms and I want an invisible table to serve as a layout device to get other objects alligned in columns and rows. I'd like the bottom borders of all the cells to be a dotted line, to give horizontal rules accross the page. The only right click option which seems to give relevent options is Format Table, and in here you can specify the cell border colour, thickness etc - but not option for a dashed line. Border Art seems to only put a border round the entire table - not what I'm after. I know there are other ways of achieving what I want to do, using cell backgrounds or manually drawing lines. But we have hundreds of forms designed in Publisher 2007 which did allow dotted cell borders and we don't want to have to change them all. So at the moment this issue is blocking me from generally upgrading to 2010. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: You can manually create a line, right-click, all the options are available. You can also create a custom BorderArt. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi, In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim . |
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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
Ok thanks Mary, looks like we'll have to manage with a combination of both
2007 & 2010. Is there any channel for feeding back any feature requests to Microsoft or is this newsgroup the best place? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: There isn't any alternative that I can find. The pattern option is not in 2010. You can save a table in 2007 in the Content Library, it will be in the Page Parts in 2010. If the tables don't make into the Page Parts they still will be in the Content Library; a hidden file in the Local folder. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, Thanks for the reply - sorry but I just can't figure it out. Perhaps if I explain a little better what I'm after. I'm designing questionnaire forms and I want an invisible table to serve as a layout device to get other objects alligned in columns and rows. I'd like the bottom borders of all the cells to be a dotted line, to give horizontal rules accross the page. The only right click option which seems to give relevent options is Format Table, and in here you can specify the cell border colour, thickness etc - but not option for a dashed line. Border Art seems to only put a border round the entire table - not what I'm after. I know there are other ways of achieving what I want to do, using cell backgrounds or manually drawing lines. But we have hundreds of forms designed in Publisher 2007 which did allow dotted cell borders and we don't want to have to change them all. So at the moment this issue is blocking me from generally upgrading to 2010. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: You can manually create a line, right-click, all the options are available. You can also create a custom BorderArt. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi, In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim . . |
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Cell borders - dashed lines, Publisher 2010
There is the Connect web site:
https://connect.microsoft.com/directory/ I'm surprised to find MSNews still in business this morning. Visit the forums. http://social.answers.microsoft.com/...ilter=alltypes -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Ok thanks Mary, looks like we'll have to manage with a combination of both 2007 & 2010. Is there any channel for feeding back any feature requests to Microsoft or is this newsgroup the best place? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: There isn't any alternative that I can find. The pattern option is not in 2010. You can save a table in 2007 in the Content Library, it will be in the Page Parts in 2010. If the tables don't make into the Page Parts they still will be in the Content Library; a hidden file in the Local folder. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi Mary, Thanks for the reply - sorry but I just can't figure it out. Perhaps if I explain a little better what I'm after. I'm designing questionnaire forms and I want an invisible table to serve as a layout device to get other objects alligned in columns and rows. I'd like the bottom borders of all the cells to be a dotted line, to give horizontal rules accross the page. The only right click option which seems to give relevent options is Format Table, and in here you can specify the cell border colour, thickness etc - but not option for a dashed line. Border Art seems to only put a border round the entire table - not what I'm after. I know there are other ways of achieving what I want to do, using cell backgrounds or manually drawing lines. But we have hundreds of forms designed in Publisher 2007 which did allow dotted cell borders and we don't want to have to change them all. So at the moment this issue is blocking me from generally upgrading to 2010. Any other thoughts? Thanks, Tim "Mary Sauer" wrote: You can manually create a line, right-click, all the options are available. You can also create a custom BorderArt. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Tim Boothby" wrote in message ... Hi, In Publiser 2007 it was possible to have dashed or dotted lines as cell borders. This was acheived by using a patern for the line colour, e.g. a pattern of vertical lines would give a dotted horizontal cell border. In Publisher 2010 the option to have a pattern for the line colour on a cell border is no longer there. Can anyone suggest a way to acheive dotted cell borders? Microsoft - is there a reason this functionality was removed, can we have it back please? Otherwise nice work, I'm hearing good feedback from the people testing 2010. Thanks, Tim . . |
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