Cell border will not hold.

Question

A cell will not maintain a border.  When I try to select which line to use, it immediately goes back to "none", thoughts?

Answer 1

Hi keirby,
Border format controls may be found in the Format bar near the top of the document window (top image) and in the Table Inspector (bottom image).
Note that there are four controls in the Format bar. The Inspector splits the first one, the border selection menu, into three sets of buttons. The remaining controls are uses to set the border Style, the border Width, and the Border Colour. If you use only the first (which is what I suspect you have done), you will have Selected the border that you want to change, but haven't specified what changes you want to make.
Here are the steps to set a wide, dashed red border on a set of three cells:
Select the cells to which the border will be applied.
In the Format bar, select the bottom border, using the first pop-up menu button.
When you release the mouse button,the blue Selection rectangle showing the three selected cells (above) will be replaces by a blue Selection line showing the bottom edge of these cells in selected. No change has yet been made to the border.
Use the Style button to choose the dashed line.
Use the Stroke Thickness button to choose 2 pt.
Click the Stroke Color Well and choose a Red from the Color Palette that opens.
The selection line will change to reflect each of these choices as it is made and applied to the selected border.
Click any unselected cell on the table to deselect the cells just changed, or click away from the table to deselect the whole table and view the changes.
Regards,
Barry