Bug 116870 - Table borders doesnt work as intended
Summary: Table borders doesnt work as intended
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.3.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-04-07 21:51 UTC by pajaro
Modified: 2018-05-12 05:02 UTC (History)
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table border misbehaving (105.77 KB, video/x-matroska)
2018-04-07 21:51 UTC, pajaro
Details
error (412.89 KB, video/x-matroska)
2018-04-07 22:03 UTC, pajaro
Details

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Description pajaro 2018-04-07 21:51:38 UTC
Created attachment 141200 [details]
table border misbehaving

Maybe I just dont understand how it works

I attach video of the problem

to reproduce

1. make a 2x2 table
2. select the 4 cells
3. try every button of the border selection

All the buttons modify all the borders, the inside borders too

But not always all of them, as can be seen in the video attached

To add insult to injury, the ui is not very intuitive. Should i open a different bug about this?

Some ideas why I think is not good:
- You cant tell which border or border style is currently selected
- You have to click 4 times every time you want to modify a specific border
- Theres a table properties menu from where you can modify borders too. Its the same as calc and its more intuitive. But it doesnt have preview! or apply button!. You have to select every cell, secondary menu, properties, modify everything and hope for the best. Since there is no preview button, and you did it wrong, you have repeat everything

From this menu it misbehaves the same as the tool buttons btw
Comment 1 pajaro 2018-04-07 22:03:53 UTC
Created attachment 141201 [details]
error

Again, maybe i dont understand how this works, but it doesnt work as in calc for example

I expect the lines inside to be unmodified and the borders changed
Comment 2 Dieter 2018-04-08 19:09:52 UTC
Pajaro, you can adjust the borders as follows:
1) open borders in the table properties dialog (as you did)
2) choose the borders you like to change (they are marked with arrows)
3) Change the line (style / width / color) of this border(s). For exmple if you wat to remove the borders choose the style "none"

I close this as NOTABUG. Please feel free to change it back to UNCONFIRMED, if there is still a problem that might be caused by a bug.