Old issue, can't find solution, time sensitive

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I have found a hand full of threads on this issue, but none of the workarounds are working for me. The most recent one I can find is from 2011.

I have a Word doc with a table, borders around each cell. I have reset the borders to make sure they are all the same thickness, and it looks fine in Word.

I convert to pdf, either Reader or Acrobat - it does the same thing. A seemingly random assortment of cell border lines disappear. If I zoom in, one or two reappear, but most are still missing—not faint, just gone.

If I print, they appear, but this is for a website, so that doesn't really help.

Some of the cells are a slightly darker shade than the others, and I have tried moving the color box off the border line, but there is nothing underneath but white.

I have tried clicking "enhance thin lines," which was already clicked.

I have tried clicking and unclicking "Replace Document Colors" just because someone claimed it worked, though I don't really know what it has to do with cell borders.

I could search the forums all day, but I have other projects that need my attention! Would be grateful for any new insights. Thanks!

SlyDave · Accepted Answer

The last suggestion in this thread may work: https://acrobatusers.com/forum/pdf-creation/word-pdf-table-lines-missing-or-faded/

@ ~graffiti: The link you posted from the 2011 thread was actually very helpful, as it helped me with disappearing lines with Microsoft Word 2016 created documents, converted to PDF using Acrobat DC Pro. For all of those users who are using Microsoft Word to create tables, and then those tables have row borders or lines that are disappearing as you zoom in and out, the removal of the top and bottom cell margins fixed this for me. Set your top and bottom cell margins for your entire table to "0" in Microsoft Word.

Note for Office 2016 users, there is a bug in Microsoft Word 2016, that makes it difficult to set your cell margins to "0". You may have to set them to something larger, like "0.02" and then switch them back. You can read more about this bug here: Word 2016: Can't override default table cell margins

lauram20682487 · Answer

Something odd to add: When I zoom in on the pdf, more lines actually disappear. At 100%, I am missing top and bottom borders for cells in lines 3-5 of my table. If I zoom to 125%, now I am missing top and bottoms for lines 3-7. I'm sure that's a clue as to what the issue is?

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