MS Word showing unwanted table borders on screen (but not on print preview)

Posted by Jivlain on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Jivlain
Published on 2010-05-28T03:44:17Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 3:53 UTC
Read the original article Hit count: 230

Filed under:

microsoft-word

I have a MS Word document with a number of tables. The other day when I created it, the tables all had no borders. Today, I opened it up to find that the tables did have borders.

However, when I check the border properties on each table, it says that there are no borders. The tables are displayed with cell borders in all view modes except for the reading layout, and they do not show up on print preview.

As this document is going to generally be for on-screen viewing, I need to get rid of the borders. How can I accomplish this?

(this is a MS Word 2003 *.doc document, in MS Word 2003, which has been the only editor involved.)

Related posts about microsoft-word

Easy Update "Table of Contents" feature in Microsoft Word 2007 VS. Microsoft word 2010

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I am currently working on a document that was written using Microsoft Word 2007 and I am also using Microsoft Word 2007 to update the document. It is just the way of the workplace I am now in. I have noticed that the feature of adding nested headers ("subheaders" perhaps) does not work the same… >>> More
Microsoft Word 2007 opening all docs with field codes toggled off

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Recently, something changed with my Microsoft Word 2007 installation/preferences on Windows XP, such that whenever I open a word document, all the field codes are displayed raw instead of as their expanded value. For example, my header reads: My Name { TITLE \* MERGEFORMAT } Version { REVNUM… >>> More
Microsoft Word - Word count excluding specific Styles?

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to get a word count that excludes text with a specific Style in a Microsoft Word 2007 document? I've seen this related question, but I've got blocks of source code scattered throughout which would mean I'd have to go through each of my documents a section at… >>> More
Microsoft Word restores all open documents when clicking on a .DOC file

as seen on Super User - Search for 'Super User'
I tend to have a few Word documents that I keep open all the time, with notes for a long-running project. Normally they are all minimized. The problem is that when I click on a different .doc or .docx file in Windows Explorer, even though the new document opens in its own window, the other, minimized… >>> More
How to open Microsoft Word by function call?

as seen on Stack Overflow - Search for 'Stack Overflow'
I want to open a word document through my program in C# and document path to read or write to. 2.To change the formatting of text in the word document as if i wanted the word window to give me the text in RTF format or plain text or docx (supported formats) 3.If i can retrieve the text in my given… >>> More

Developer IT