how to display table grid in PDF - RH10

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October 12, 2012
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I've created a new table style but the grids inside the table aren't showing when I generated a PDF file. I can't seem to find the setup to show the grids from the Styles settings below. I clicked Format > Boarders and Shading but there's no settings to make the grids visible.

Here's the actual PDF result:

I wanted the grids inside to display so the rows and columns have division lines.

Is there a way to resolve this? Thanks in advance.

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vishu_13

Inspiring

Hi

You have cretaed a table in your style sheet and under style sheet you have this type of table style only. So in order to get the type of table you want, you need to create a table in the topic itself.

If you want to use the same table in multiple topics later on, you can copy and paste the same table across multiple topics.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/RoboHelp/8.0/RoboHTML/WS491ADD30-89AF-409c-9EFC-93D4EBE521EB.html

Hope it helps

Thanks

VJ

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tanborjAuthor

Known Participant

ohhhh so I couldn't customize this specific table property directly in the table style that I created? I think It would be better to have this feature (I mean customizing directly in the table style) so If we want to insert a table in a topic, just have to select the Table style that we have created from the list of table styles instead of copy-paste.

Peter Grainge

Community Expert

I don't know why VJ has suggested copying and pasting as it is not necessary. Once you have created a table style you can insert it into other topics directly. VJ's link is to a RoboHelp 8 topic whereas you are using 10 where things are different.

Also adding tables is not your problem. As I understand it you have the tables in your topics, it's just that in PDF the borders are not showing, correct?

First generate to Word and see if the borders appear in the same way as in the topic.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips