Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 28539
Borders chance table cell size
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
Applying a border to non-bordered table within the word processor causes the cell's size to change. If the cells are joined before you apply the border, the size does not change. Applying a border should not change the cell size ever.
MRU->BH: this would mean a change of designed behaviour. What happens is, that the applied border also recieves a default spacing to the cells content of 0,1 cm, which makes the tble seem to grow. Workaround: In Format.Table.Border set the "spacing to content" to 0,00 cm.
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*** Issue 19863 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I just wanted to comment on this again, since it's been a long time since I originally reported a duplicate (19863) and nothing has changed as of OOo 3.0 Beta 2. It seems that this should be marked as a defect, not an an enhancement, as it's not documented as far as I can tell, and is unintuitive (applying a border should not also apply a change of spacing--they're two separate formatting elements). In the very least, it would be good to have an option to change this behavior somewhere, by linking it to a style or format, or otherwise creating a menu option to control the behavior. I realize there is a workaround using the "spacing to content", but it's extremely inconvenient.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".