(Solved) Problem with border lines in Word file

[serendip]

Hi

I’m using NeoOffice 3.1.1 on a new iMac.

When I open Word 2000 documents in NeoOffice, my documents often show a frame around parts of the text or whole pages. This seems to always be the case when I open documents in which I used continuous section breaks.

I tried to fix the problems by going to "Format/Page/Borders“: The "borders-tab“ indicates that a 0.05 line is used in the document. I can change the setting to „none“, but the change is not applied to the document. In fact, when I go to back to the "borders tab“ it says "0.05 line“ once again.

Thanks a lot in advance for any ideas to solve this – admittedly minor - problem.

Serendip

[ftack]

The borders you see do not print, but show the different areas of the text. They are on by default. For a new user, it takes getting used to indeed. You can also choose to turn them off: View - Text boundaries.

Table boundaries are set to display separately: "Table - Table boundaries".
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[serendip]

Thanks for the reply.

I cannot turn off the borders by going to "view - text boundaries". I went to the option and saw that it was unchecked. When I checked it, it just added a border around a part of the text that had no borders before.

Any ideas?

Serendip

[floris_v]

What happens if you remove the sections? You should check if the borders are part of a page style, in that case you may no be able to remove them with direct formatting, you then have to edit the page style (F11 to open the styles list, select the page styles, 4th tab from the left, etc).
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[serendip]

There is nothing in the NeoOffice document that indicates that sections are being used.

[floris_v]

And what about page styles or paragraph styles? If you put the cursor in a paragraph with a border with the styles list on, and you right click the active style and click Modify, then select the Borders tab, is a border enabled (see the Line arrangement part at far left of the dialog box, are there any lines bordering the grey square)?
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[serendip]

No, the little box on the left says "no borders". In the middle of tab, though, it says that a 0.05 pt line is used. I can change that setting to "none", but no changes are applied. When I go back to the tab, it says "0.05 pt line" again.

[floris_v]

Can you upload an anonimized file? You can do that at www.mediafire.com.
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[serendip]

I've uploaded a sample file. I've never used this kind of service before, soI'm not sure it'll work. I hope you can access the file through http://www.mediafire.com/file/25q2qn5ssiy6qn2/Anorexia.doc

[floris_v]

Nothing wrong with it, I have been sleeping before. What you see is section markers. When you click on print preview, you don't see any lines. For some reason you can't hide those lines, but they're perfectly harmless. There are in fact three sections in the document, you can press F5 to open the Navigator, a tool that lists all things like headings, sections, graphics, objects and what not. You can click one of them, select Edit, then click Remove to remove all of them and watch the lines disappear.

If your problem has been solved, please edit the first post in this thread and add [Solved] to the title bar.
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[serendip]

Thanks a lot for the detailed help. Everything works exactly the way you described it in your last post... And I've finally gotten rid off those lines I hate seeing

Serendip