Description: From Version 25.2.6.2., table boundaries are marked as deprecated and do not show anymore, when being triggered. Why? How can I make table boundaries visible otherwise? This is a vital and important feature. Steps to Reproduce: see above. Actual Results: see above. Expected Results: see above. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: see above.
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A *guess* is, that you are talking about a menu item that shows a " (deprecated)" label, which indicates two things. 1. Some *commands* (not functionality!) is marked deprecated in favor of another command doing the same thing. When we do that, we replace the uses of that old deprecated command from menus and toolbars, so users usually don't see that when they upgrade the program, and get menus / toolbars updated. 2. You obviously have *customized* menu. Unfortunately, there is a limitation, that as soon as user customizes a menu, it doesn't update automatically anymore; the user-modified copy is stored in user profile, and so user will have old / deprecated menu items in the discussed case. The thing that you likely refer to was f40dc496a511ae06a308dd0859bc3aad28a8ec7e.
Created attachment 203084 [details] The "show table boundaries" command in a toolbar customization panel. Thank you for taking interest in this bug report. The "Show Table Boundaries" must have been available in the "View" Menu, I personally have it assigned as command in my default toolbar (see screenshot provided). I therefore cannot "reproduce steps" to show the bug :/ The command was there, is now marked deprecated and does nothing anymore. What it did what was exactly what you would expect: Show light gray borders for tables, that do not have a border. This was very useful, to see the columns and rows of tables, that otherwise do not have explicit borders. Using tables without visable borders happens a lot, at least in my case, e.g. for scientific tables.
Just replace it with generic "Show Boundaries", and make sure that on Options->Writer->Formatting Aids, "Object Boundaries"->"Tables" is checked. This is not a bug.
Actually a duplicate of bug 165528, and fixed for bug 164185. The boundaries are enabled in version 25.8.0 and 25.2.1. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165528 ***
Thanks Mike for pointing me in the right direction. I've tried the show boundaries switch. That it has to be enabled extra for tables, is very unintuitive, imho.