OT: openoffice - embed spreadsheet w/ *#$! grid lines!!!

[Matt Price]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On 11/23/2010 12:42 AM, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > In hte last 12-hour stretch of a $200K grant application and trying to
> > get a fricking calc spreadsheet to embed properly in a writer document.
> >
> > I can get the datea there easily enough:
> >
> > select range in calc.  copy.
> >
> > change focus to write document.  paste.
> >
> > Now I have the OLE object, looking perfect but NO GRID LINES!!  and as
> > far as I can tell theres seems to be no way around this.  Does anyone
> > else have a hint?  tyring to use DDE instead gives me veyr ugly
> > results.  gaah!  help!
>
> The grid lines wouldn't show in Calc if you printed, and Writer is
> WYSIWYG, so it's the behaviour I would expect.
>
> If I wanted grid lines, I'd highlight the area in Writer, right-click
> and hit "format cells", specify a border thickness and a line
> arrangement of "set outer border and all inner lines".
>
> ah.  tht did it.  and it was so simple...

thanks,
m

i think i was fooled b/c i have 'print gririd lines' set to yes somewhere in
the optinions.

m

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