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The borders for tables that you create within PowerPoint are thin lines by default. You can change the thickness of these borders, but even before you do so, there are certain prerequisites to take care of. First of all, if you use Table Styles, then some borders may have been set to be invisible. So first of course, you need to set them to be visible since there’s no sense in thickening an invisible border. Once borders are visible, you can make changes to their appearance such as changing their color, line style, or the thickness of the table borders.
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Set Line Style for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2013
Set Line Style for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2011
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While drawing tables, you might have noticed that table borders are thin with just 1pt. weight (thickness). And truly speaking, you may not need to change that value most of the time. However, if you do want to change the weight of table borders, you do so in the same way as you change their color or line style. Your table borders can be of any weight starting from 0.25 pt. to 6pt., and no higher. Even 6 pt. is very thick for a table border, so it does pay to be careful, just to make sure that your table borders don’t look too blocky, or even distract from the content within the table.
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Set Line Weight for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2013
Set Line Weight for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2011
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By default, table borders in PowerPoint take their color from the Theme applied to the presentation. However, you can change this color as required. Not only you can set the table border color for the new tables to be drawn, but also you can change the color of existing table borders.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Set Color for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2013
Set Color for Table Borders in PowerPoint 2011
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While PowerPoint allows you to create tables in various ways, from inserting them with a pre-decided number of rows and columns to something as intuitive as actually drawing your own table, most of the tables you create using either of these two methods will show borders between individual cells. These borders are great and they make the segregation between cells obvious. Yet, what if you don’t want to see the border altogether? Let us first understand that not seeing the border is not the same as getting rid of the border altogether, the latter happens when you merge cells, or even when you erase some borders. However, what if you just want to cosmetically hinder the visibility of the border, as in a border that exists but is not visible. The Border options allow you to make some of table borders visible/invisible for the entire table, or for a bunch of contagious table cells that are selected.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Toggle Visibility of Table Borders in PowerPoint 2013
Toggle Visibility of Table Borders in PowerPoint 2011
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You can manually draw tables and divide your tables into numerous rows, columns, and cells. In the same way, PowerPoint allows you to erase segregations (borders) between cells and thus merge cells.
To learn more, choose your version of PowerPoint. If we do not have a tutorial for your version of PowerPoint, explore the version closest to the one you use.
Erase Table Borders in PowerPoint 2013
Erase Table Borders in PowerPoint 2011
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