{"id":18510,"date":"2016-10-25T18:14:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=18510"},"modified":"2016-10-25T18:14:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T18:14:12","slug":"spreadsheets-how-to-border-a-selection-in-libreoffice-calc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-how-to-border-a-selection-in-libreoffice-calc\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheets:  How to border a selection in LibreOffice Calc"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor explains how to set a border around a range of cells in LibreOffice Calc.<\/h1>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nSelect the area around which you want a border.<\/li>\n<li>\nFind the icon that&#8217;s a square divided in four; it&#8217;s perhaps four in from the right.  If you mouse over it, you&#8217;ll see <span style=\"font-family:monospace\">Borders, add lines<\/span><\/li>\n<li>\nClick that icon, then select the style of border you want.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>You&#8217;ll see a thin, black border around your selection.  To customize that border, do the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\nMake sure the range is still selected (or select it again).<\/li>\n<li>\nAt the top of the screen, click Format, then Cells&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>\nSelect the Borders tab.  Therein, you&#8217;ll see where you can select the style, width, and color of the border.\n<\/li>\n<li>\nI find a border really doesn&#8217;t become obvious until it&#8217;s 1.25pt or more.<\/li>\n<li>\nClick OK to apply your choices.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor explains how to set a border around a range of cells in LibreOffice Calc. Here&#8217;s what to do: Select the area around which you want a border. Find the icon that&#8217;s a square divided in four; it&#8217;s perhaps &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/spreadsheets-how-to-border-a-selection-in-libreoffice-calc\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spreadsheets:  How to border a selection in LibreOffice Calc<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[371,1073,1009,1951,1065],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-computer-skills","category-home-computer-use","category-libreoffice-calc","category-spreadsheets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18510"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18517,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions\/18517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}