BorderLiner

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BorderLiner provides a simple method to draw borders in tables and some text elements in OpenOffice.org Calc and Writer.

Select the line style in the toolbar, use the dialog to define the color. Then activate the extension (left most button). Now imagine the numerical key pad of your PC to be a table. "2" marks the bottom border, "8" the top and so on. Select the cells, press

ALT+2 to draw a bottom line,
CTRL+2 to pick the linestyle of the bottom line or
SHIFT+2 to delete the bottom line etc.

In Calc you can also use the mouse: release the mouse close to the border you want to draw. If the mouse is released in the center of a cell, no line is drawn.
Supported are also selections of cells with multiple formats (bug in version 2.0) and multiple ranges of cells in Calc.

Available in following languages: de, en, fr, it (see documentation on how to help translating BorderLiner).
Documentation at http://home.tiscali.de/hillerd/Software.html (including packages ColorChooser and OooRegistry separated as opensource).