Help Needed: Unable to change the Table Border Color

system · October 9, 2008, 11:33pm

Hi All,

This seem to be a pretty easy one but I can’t get it working.

I am generating a report with few data points in a table. I need the table border (not the content inside the cells) to be displayed in a specific color otherthan the default one.

I tried changing the border color under the table properties and tried with different patterns as well but with no luck. (The same appears to be for free cells in the report). Can’t I change the border color for a table or a cell?

Any help will be much appreciated as I need to publish this report by tomorrow and do not want to get stuck at this simple aspect

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Pavan

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 10, 2008, 4:42am

You are talking about Desk-I report right? Did you try this?
Selecting the table -> Format -> Table->Border->Choose the custom color ->Select the presets as Box. The same holds for a cell -> Format Cell -> Border ->…

Jansi (BOB member since 2008-05-12)

system · October 10, 2008, 4:44am

Yes. I am using Deski and I tried using the options specified in your reply but no luck.

I can make the cells or borders transparent but applying colors isn’t working.

Regards,
Pavan

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 10, 2008, 4:47am

Did you try this?

Jansi (BOB member since 2008-05-12)

system · October 10, 2008, 5:12am

Yes. I tried that but no go

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 10, 2008, 5:15am

Can you tell the steps that you followed exactly?

Jansi (BOB member since 2008-05-12)

system · October 10, 2008, 6:00am

Here are the steps:

1.Highlighted the table and selected the “Format table” option (tried both in the format menu as well as the options we get on a right click)
2. Selected border tab
3. Toggled between the presets (Box n None)
4. Selected the color - no go
5. Selected the different styles under this tab - no go

I tried these steps with multiple tables, cells in different reports but still cant get the borders to have desired color. Do you have any other steps to help me out?

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 10, 2008, 6:05am

Here you go. Try the step 4 before doing step 3.

Jansi (BOB member since 2008-05-12)

system · October 10, 2008, 9:46am

I have problems sometimes with turning borders on/off. In some cases the ony solution is to rebuild the table … then it does work …

HenkK

HenkK (BOB member since 2004-03-02)

system · October 10, 2008, 3:31pm

Hey Henkk

I tried creating a new report with a different data set in a new table but the colors doesnt appear.

Any other suggestions that I can try?

Regards,
Pavan

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 10, 2008, 5:24pm

Is your view % on 100%? E.g. the thickness of the line cannot be viewed at 100%, DeskI must at 200% to see the difference. Could this be your problem too ?

HenkK

HenkK (BOB member since 2004-03-02)

system · October 10, 2008, 5:30pm

Yes. I tried with different views as well but no go.

Does page setting has anything to do with this? I am currently using the pageviewer mode , with Paper size as Letter and Orientation as Landscape.

Regards,
Pavan

PavanKumar (BOB member since 2008-10-08)

system · October 13, 2008, 10:09am

The sequence of selection is all important:

select table
format table
Select Borders tab
Specify Custom colour
Specify line style
Select Box preset

For some reason, if you go back to change the style the values you specified earlier aren’t retained and you have to repeat all steps.

Chas (BOB member since 2004-10-26)