How to stop row borders from overlapping table borders

Question

I have a feeling the answer to this is "you can't", but I'll ask anyway because some of my users don't like this. Neither do I, actually, and I can't figure out why it would happen like this.

We have tables with a black border around the outside and a thin grey border separating the rows and columns. The grey row border line intersects and overlays the black table border, so it looks like a series of dashed lines (if you zoom in enough). Oddly, the column borders do not do the same thing: the table border at the top and bottom are uninterrupted. See graphics.

So why is this, and is there any way to fix it?

Lynne A. Price · Answer

Lin,

My results match yours. The workaround I came up was to:

Remove the left and right ruling on the table
Add a narrow column on the left and right sides of the table.
In the new columns, set all 4 cell margins to 0.
Set the column width of the new columns to the desired side ruling width.

5. Set custom shading in the new columns to black.

--Lynne

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