Selecting and Moving Table Cell Borders
Select table or cell borders to change their appearance or move them within the
table. You can select entire table borders or individual cell borders (segments). You can
select multiple borders segments, too, making it easy to change the appearance of
several at once.
After a table cell is selected, holding the pointer over a border makes it appear to
straddle the line; this appearance tells you that if you click, you’ll select a border or
border segment. A simple rule of thumb is to click to select a table and click a second
time to select a border, and then click a third time to select a border segment.
The pointer looks like this when
it’s over a horizontal segment.
The pointer looks like this when
it’s over a vertical segment.
To quickly select specific table borders:
1
Select a table or table cell and click the border selection button in the format bar.
Borders button
2
Choose the set of borders that you want from the pop-up menu.
3
To select a different segment (or only a single segment if two are selected), hold the
pointer over the segment you want until it changes to a set of parallel lines, and then
click the border to select it.
To select borders of a selected table, do one or more of the following:
Click a border to select it.
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Click another border to select the border.
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Hold down the Shift or Command key while you click to select (or deselect)
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multiple borders.
Double-click a selected border to select a segment of the border.
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Hold down the Shift or Command key while you click to select (or deselect) multiple
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border segments.
To quickly select the corresponding borders of multiple cells:
1
Select the table, row, column, or cells.
2
Click Inspector in the toolbar, and click the Table button to open the Table inspector.
3
Click Table in the Table inspector.
4
Click any of the Cell Borders buttons in the Table inspector.
To move a border segment:
Select it and drag it to where you want.
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Formatting Table Cell Borders
You can change the line thickness and color of table cell borders. Or you can hide the
cell border of any cell.
To format table cell borders:
1
Select the cell border segments you want to format.
2
To change the line style (stroke), click the stroke pop-up menu in the format bar and
select a solid line, a dashed line, or None (to make the borders invisible).
Click to choose a
stroke color.
Click to choose a stroke style.
Click to choose a line thickness.
3
To change the line thickness, specify a number in the field adjacent to the stroke pop-
up menu.
To enter a value outside the range of 0.25 to 10, you can type it into the field.
4
To change the line color, click the color well and select a color from the color matrix.
For more color options, choose Show Colors.
The same border segment styling can be done in the Table pane of the Table inspector.
For instructions on using the Colors window to select and manage colors, see “The
Colors Window” on page 25.
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