Bug 34518 - Gridlines disappear when cells have a background color
Summary: Gridlines disappear when cells have a background color
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 30800
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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3.3.0 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) All
: high normal
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Reported: 2011-02-21 00:51 UTC by Stevie24680
Modified: 2012-05-04 05:53 UTC (History)
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Description Stevie24680 2011-02-21 00:51:33 UTC 
Hi,

as the summary says. I used Openoffice before and the gridlines didnt disappear when setting a backhground color to cells.

regards,
Stevie
Comment 1 andréb 2011-03-06 18:49:37 UTC 
(adjusted title a bit)

This (very annoying) problem exists in Linux as well.

There is no reasonable workaround.
(making all adjacent cells a different colour does not solve a common use case, which is the heading of a table.  Nor does it solve the case of background colour being used to highlight certain types of cells, which make be adjacent, but must be readily distinguished.)

If the display of grid lines is selected (the default selection), they should appear everywhere by default, including between 2 cells of the same background colour.
In that case, if a user want to hide grid lines between cells of the same colour, they just have to colour the lines between such cells the same colour as the cell.

It might be useful to some users to suppress grid lines only in cells without a background colour, but this should be another option -- since this is a _partial_ display of grid lines, and the existing option is to display (or not) grid lines.
Comment 2 andréb 2011-03-06 18:58:38 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 30800 ***
Comment 3 Roman Eisele 2012-05-04 05:53:32 UTC 
This is a Calc issue, therefore changed the 'Component' field accordingly.