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From: jian@prodix.liu.se (Jian Hu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tables using WordPerfect 5.0
Message-ID: <105@prodix.liu.se>
Date: 29 Jun 89 10:19:53 GMT
References: <176@mother.dde.uucp> <7243@ecsvax.UUCP> <5430@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM> <8790@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Univ of Linkoping, Sweden
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In article <8790@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> ... lines deleted ...

>This is one area where MS Word is much easier to use than WP.  Word
>lets you specify a border as part of a paragraph format and vertical
>lines (that close properly with the border) can be positioned in the
>tab settings.  That can all be saved as a style, so you can import
>an area from a lotus file (directly), apply the style to set up the
>tab settings and lines and print.  If you want more horizontal lines,
>just add paragraph breaks.

WP 5.0 also has the style function, which is what I use now to draw tables
in prop. spaced fonts.

/Jian Hu