Publisher - Table borders

[Sylverzone]

I want to delete the edge borders of a table so that I just have the horizontal lines. I cannot see a way to do this. If I try to select one side or the other it selects the whole table. If I choose one of the table grid selections it does not let me then edit the individual borders. Changing the colours or the strokes does not seem to have any impact either? How do I turn off the edge borders? Thanks in anticipation.

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums.
You can try what I show in my attached GIF.
Basically you open the Table Panel, select all the cells, and set the Outside Vertical Stroke to None.

[Sylverzone]

Thank you - I will try that. :-)

 

[mswift]

What if you want the left and right column strokes to be white and the line separating the Rows to be clear except top and bottom of each cell?

Like this:

 

[GarryP]

One method is to add some ‘spacer columns’ which have no formatting (see attached image and afpub document).
There may be other methods.

spacer-columns.afpub

[mswift]

Thanks Garry, yes that’s a workaround. I actually managed to do it but tried to it again but wouldn’t work! Frustrating.

[Joachim_L]

Of course it is possible to make such a table without adding blank columns. See image. Keywords = Text styles with decorations

 

[GarryP]

mswift: Just to be clear, are you saying that:
1) you managed to get what you wanted without using ‘spacer columns’ once but can't repeat it, or,
2) you couldn’t get the ‘spacer columns’ to work.
It’s just that I’m not entirely sure what you meant by “it” in “I actually managed to do it”.

[mswift]

14 hours ago, GarryP said:

mswift: Just to be clear, are you saying that:
1) you managed to get what you wanted without using ‘spacer columns’ once but can't repeat it, or,
2) you couldn’t get the ‘spacer columns’ to work.
It’s just that I’m not entirely sure what you meant by “it” in “I actually managed to do it”.

Managed to get what you wanted without using ‘spacer columns’ once but can't repeat it!

First one worked but cant repeat it on last row.

[GarryP]

Unfortunately I can’t replicate what you did in a nice way.
I thought I might have had a solution using the ordering of strokes but that didn’t work.
I can do it with two tables (see attached image, where the top one Erases parts of the one underneath) but I don’t consider that a good solution.
More experimentation needed.
Maybe someone else can come up with something they can explain.

Edited January 18, 2020 by GarryP
Added extra info'.

[mswift]

Thanks Garry, I appreciate this.

I will battle along again with it tomorrow.

[GarryP]

You’re welcome.
Maybe a better solution will pop into my head when I don’t expect it to.