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Note
Turning boundaries off does not hide the borders that the table
may have.
Tip
You can also turn table boundaries on and off through Tools >
Options > OpenOffice.org > Appearance. On that page, you
can display or hide boundaries around text, pages headers and
footers, figures, and other parts of a document.
Formatting the table text
Once the table layout is satisfactory, you can move on to formatting the
text in the individual cells. You can apply manual formatting as with
any other paragraph in the text, but it is highly recommended, for the
sake of consistency and ease of maintenance, that you define your own
paragraph and character styles.
Besides the paragraph and character styles, there are other aspects to
consider when placing text in a table cell; such as text flow, alignment
and orientation.
You can format each cell independently of other cells, or you can
simultaneously format a group of cells by selecting them before
applying the desired formatting.
Specifying text flow
On the
Text Flow
page of the Table Format dialog box (Figure 278), you
can:
Insert a page or column break either before or after the table.
Use the
Text Flow
:
Break option, combined with the Page or
Column and the Before or After buttons.
If you insert a page break before the table (that is, start the table
on a new page), you can also change the page style that will go
with it by checking the With Page Style box and selecting a new
page style. As with any page break, you can also reset the page
numbers using the
Page number
box.
Keep a table on one page by deselecting the Allow table to split
across pages and columns option. If this item is deselected, the
next item is not active.
Keep each row on one page by deselecting the Allow row to
break across pages and columns
option.
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