Bug 166277 - "Clear Direct Formatting" does not apply to table borders
Summary: "Clear Direct Formatting" does not apply to table borders
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
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25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
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Depends on: HelpGaps-NewFeatures
Blocks: Writer-Tables
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Reported: 2025-04-21 12:41 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-04-24 19:22 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-04-21 12:41:35 UTC 
If you:

1. Insert a table (with no special formatting)
2. Right-click the table and choose "Table Properties..."
3. On the Borders tab, set some kind of visible border.
4. Select the entire table; or select an area starting before and ending after the table
5. On the menus, choose Format > Clear Direct Formatting

Expected: Table (cell) borders are cleared.
Actual: No effect on the table (and its cells)
Comment 1 Jessica 2025-04-22 07:27:42 UTC 
Hi,
I can not reproduce the bug in 

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (10.0 build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 2 Jessica 2025-04-22 07:38:10 UTC 
Also not reproducible in 

Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 3a729a2b9716902097cc5ba35615b55882d98e9b
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 3 Olivier Hallot 2025-04-22 12:08:29 UTC 
Cannot confirm. But...

Ctrl+M (Clear direct formatting) applies the table default style, except if the table has already a Table style applied.

Individual cells with border (or background color for example) DF are returned to the borders(or BG color) of the Default table style.

I agree it should be clarified in the documentation.

Version: 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7370d4be9e3cf6031a51beef54ff3bda878e3fac
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.14; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-US (pt_BR.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded