Table border: only outside rules (no interior rules)?

Steve Straus

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- July 9, 2020 at 8:38 am #14328434
  
  Steve Straus
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  Table borders have always been a bit of an oddball feature as they simply aren’t as logical as would like them to be. Is there a way to make a simple table style (2 columns, 4 rows) that only has borders on the outside and not on any interior verticals or horizontals? I need to automate this using table styles for a book so manual tweaking is what I am hoping to avoid. I have tried Table Borders but these are linked to the cell style rules. While this is a simple 2-column table that I need, I have figured out how to use the left/right cells to avoid the extra vertical rules, but short of making the top a header and bottom a footer (manual tweaks), I can’t figure out how to get a table to consistently work automatically.
  Here is a sample of a test doc that I can’t get to work: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9iau2kfo890zjb7/table-sample.indd?dl=1
  Any suggestions? Thanks!
- July 9, 2020 at 11:07 am #14331297
  
  Marc Verhaegen
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  Hi Steve, take a look at ‘Row Strokes’ and ‘Column Strokes’ in the Table Style options window. Choose ‘Every other row/column’ and put the color to ‘None’. Manual tweaking avoided! If you wan’t to share the profit, always welcome ;-)
- July 9, 2020 at 11:51 am #125822
  
  Steve Straus
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  You have earned your ID Master badge for the day! This works perfectly. Do you want to go double or nothing with table issues? Another ongoing issue I have with tables in in the column heads. For a multiple column head with a column rule between each column, how do I automatically turn off the outside columns so the disappear? The left side drops off but the right side always picks up the style of the middle divider, thus I need to manually turn this border off.
  Here’s a sample of what my problem is (tweaked for easy reading):
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/xzienor4bs9h2aq/Table2.indd?dl=1
- July 10, 2020 at 2:15 am #14331298
  
  Marc Verhaegen
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  Hi Steve, don’t be lazy, I gave you the solution already. This is just a workaround.
- July 10, 2020 at 5:37 am #125827
  
  Steve Straus
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  Marc — sorry to mislead you. Your solution worked perfectly and for that I am grateful. Since you seem to have an amazing grasp on some of the intimate details of charts, I was merely hoping to tap into this expertise one more time. My response was another issue that I can’t seem to figure out.
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