Drawing borders around merged table cells in POI XLSF so that they render well in MS PowerPoint is very problematic. The borders produced leave many gaps.
This simple demonstration creates a 5 row x 3 column table of cells, merges the cells on the top row and gives them a red border, leaves a row as gap, then merges the 3 cells in the middle column and gives them a blue border. The result shown in PowerPoint is:
The code to produce this was:
MergedCellBorderProblem.java
It would be ideal if POI XSLF could internally apply the same border styling from the neighboring cells as this seems to be what is required to plug the gaps.
Even with simple (non merged) cells, it was seen in https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69501 that unless you're in 1st row or 1st column, only bottom and right edge border settings come through in MS PowerPoint (just setting top or left edges on cells gets ignored by powerpoint, even though the saved slide.xml shows that POI has written them out).
Drawing borders around merged table cells in POI XLSF so that they render well in MS PowerPoint is very problematic. The borders produced leave many gaps.
This simple demonstration creates a 5 row x 3 column table of cells, merges the cells on the top row and gives them a red border, leaves a row as gap, then merges the 3 cells in the middle column and gives them a blue border. The result shown in PowerPoint is:
The code to produce this was:
MergedCellBorderProblem.java
It would be ideal if POI XSLF could internally apply the same border styling from the neighboring cells as this seems to be what is required to plug the gaps.
Even with simple (non merged) cells, it was seen in https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69501 that unless you're in 1st row or 1st column, only bottom and right edge border settings come through in MS PowerPoint (just setting top or left edges on cells gets ignored by powerpoint, even though the saved slide.xml shows that POI has written them out).