Macro for manipulating table borders

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Description

This macro manipulates the borders of either an entire table, or a single cell.

Note: it might be more efficient to manipulate borders using styles, see https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/how-to-set-textframe-borders-at-once/108826

The table borders are accessible via the property com.sun.star.table.TableBorder.

The elements of this struct have two types:

• Borders (upper, lower, left, right, horizontal, vertical); the borders are the structs com.sun.star.table.BorderLine2 which "add" style elements for the struct com.sun.star.table.BorderLine.
• Booleans (IsLeftLineValid, IsRightLineValid, IsTopLineValid, etc.). In writing, defining them as True to modify the line correspondingly, and False to ignore; meaning it keeps its current value.

The definition for spacing with the content is via the property com.sun.star.table.TableBorderDistances of the table. This struct is manipulated via the same principle, using BottomDistance, LeftDistance, etc. and booleans for modifying the name.

The macro below is executed on the currently selected table. In the macro, we do the following:

• We start by checking that the cursor is indeed inside a table.
• The objective is to replace the current borders (the parameters Is... are defined as True) to obtain a an external perimeter and horizontal double lines. We don't want vertical lines. Therefore we need .IsVerticalLineValid = true and VerticalLine = LibONoLine, a struct defined for applying "empty" to a line. We cannot simply use .IsVerticalLineValid = false since the current table could have vertical lines defined and we want to suppress them. With the parameter false, the existing lines would be left in their current state.
• The desired border width is 0.30 cm.
• The parameter Fuse the adjacent line styles is defined by the property CollapsingBorders of the table.

Code

Border line distances and widths are expressed in 1/100 mm.

LibreOffice Basic

Option Explicit


Sub Main()
    '''Choose which of the two subroutines to call, by commenting out the one you don't want'''

    'AddBordersToAllCells
    _AddBordersToCell("Table1","B2")

End Sub ' Main


Sub AddBordersToAllCells()
    ''' Add double-borders to all cells in the currently selected table'''

    Dim oCursor As Object
    Dim oTable As Object
    Dim oTableBorder As Object

    Dim oLine As New com.sun.star.table.BorderLine2
    Dim oNoLine As New com.sun.star.table.BorderLine2
    Dim oBorderDistances As New com.sun.star.table.TableBorderDistances
    oCursor = ThisComponent.CurrentController.ViewCursor

    If (isEmpty(oCursor.textTable)) Then
        MsgBox "The cursor is not inside a table.", _
            MB_ICONINFORMATION, _
            "Warning from AddBordersToAllCells()"
    Else
        With oLine
            .Color = 0
            .InnerLineWidth = 10
            .LineDistance = 60 
            .LineStyle = com.sun.star.table.BorderLineStyle.DOUBLE 
            .LineWidth = 5
            .OuterLineWidth = 10
        End With
        With oNoLine
            .Color = 0
            .InnerLineWidth = 0
            .LineDistance = 0
            .LineStyle = 0
            .LineWidth = 0
            .OuterLineWidth = 0
        End With
        With oBorderDistances
            .BottomDistance = 300
            .IsBottomDistanceValid = True   
            .IsLeftDistanceValid = True   
            .IsRightDistanceValid = True   
            .IsTopDistanceValid = True   
            .LeftDistance = 300   
            .RightDistance = 300
            .TopDistance = 300
        End With
        
        oTable = oCursor.TextTable
        oTableBorder = oTable.TableBorder
        
        With oTableBorder        
            .IsLeftLineValid = true
            .IsRightLineValid = true
            .IsTopLineValid = true
            .IsBottomLineValid = true
            .IsHorizontalLineValid = true
            .IsVerticalLineValid = true
            .LeftLine = oLine
            .RightLine = oLine
            .TopLine = oLine
            .BottomLine = oLine 
            .HorizontalLine = oLine
            .VerticalLine = oNoLine
        End With
        
        With oTable
            .TableBorder = oTableBorder 
            .HoriOrient = com.sun.star.text.HoriOrientation.FULL 
            .CollapsingBorders = true
            .TableBorderDistances = oBorderDistances
        End With  

    End If

End Sub ' AddBordersToAllCells


Private Sub _AddBordersToCell(myTable As String, myCell As String)
    '''Add double-borders to specified cell in specified table'''

    Dim oTable As Object
    Dim oCell As Object
    Dim oLine As New com.sun.star.table.BorderLine2

    With oLine
        .Color = 0
        .InnerLineWidth = 10
        .LineDistance = 60 
        .LineStyle = com.sun.star.table.BorderLineStyle.DOUBLE
        .LineWidth = 2
        .OuterLineWidth = 10
    End With

    oTable = ThisComponent.TextTables.getByName(myTable)
    oCell = oTable.getCellByName(myCell)

    With oCell
        .LeftBorder = oLine
        .LeftBorderDistance = 100
        .RightBorder = oLine
        .RightBorderDistance = 100
        .TopBorder = oLine
        .TopBorderDistance = 100
        .BottomBorder = oLine 
        .BottomBorderDistance = 100
    End With

End Sub ' AddBordersToCell

Python

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from __future__ import unicode_literals
from com.sun.star.table import BorderLine2
from com.sun.star.table import TableBorderDistances
from com.sun.star.table.BorderLineStyle import DOUBLE
import uno
import msgbox
from com.sun.star.text.HoriOrientation import FULL


def _msgbox(prompt='', title='LibreOffice'):
    """ Displays a dialog box containing a message and returns a value."""
    mb = msgbox.MsgBox(uno.getComponentContext())
    mb.addButton('OK')
    mb.show(prompt, 0, title)


def AddBordersToAllCells():
    """Add double-borders to all cells in the currently selected table"""
    desktop = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDesktop()
    model = desktop.getCurrentComponent()
    view_cursor = model.getCurrentController()
    cursor = view_cursor.getViewCursor()
    line = BorderLine2()
    no_line = BorderLine2()
    border_distances = TableBorderDistances()
    if cursor.TextTable is None:
        _msgbox("The cursor is not inside a table.", "Warning from AddBordersToAllCells()")
    else:
        line.Color = 0
        line.InnerLineWidth = 10
        line.LineDistance = 60
        line.LineStyle = DOUBLE
        line.LineWidth = 5
        line.OuterLineWidth = 10

        no_line.Color = 0
        no_line.InnerLineWidth = 0
        no_line.LineDistance = 0
        no_line.LineStyle = 0
        no_line.LineWidth = 0
        no_line.OuterLineWidth = 0

        border_distances.BottomDistance = 300
        border_distances.IsBottomDistanceValid = True
        border_distances.IsLeftDistanceValid = True
        border_distances.IsRightDistanceValid = True
        border_distances.IsTopDistanceValid = True
        border_distances.LeftDistance = 300
        border_distances.RightDistance = 300
        border_distances.TopDistance = 300

        table = cursor.TextTable
        table_border = table.TableBorder
        table_border.IsLeftLineValid = True
        table_border.IsRightLineValid = True
        table_border.IsTopLineValid = True
        table_border.IsBottomLineValid = True
        table_border.IsHorizontalLineValid = True
        table_border.IsVerticalLineValid = True
        table_border.LeftLine = line
        table_border.RightLine = line
        table_border.TopLine = line
        table_border.BottomLine = line
        table_border.HorizontalLine = line
        table_border.VerticalLine = no_line

        table.TableBorder = table_border
        table.CollapsingBorders = True
        table.TableBorderDistances = border_distances


def Main():
    _AddBordersToCell("Table1", "B2")


def _AddBordersToCell(my_table, my_cell):
    """Add double-borders to specified cell in specified table"""
    desktop = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getDesktop()
    model = desktop.getCurrentComponent()

    line = BorderLine2()
    line.Color = 0
    line.InnerLineWidth = 10
    line.LineDistance = 60
    line.LineStyle = DOUBLE
    line.LineWidth = 2
    line.OuterLineWidth = 10

    table = model.TextTables.getByName(my_table)
    cell = table.getCellByName(my_cell)

    cell.LeftBorder = line
    cell.LeftBorderDistance = 100
    cell.RightBorder = line
    cell.RightBorderDistance = 100
    cell.TopBorder = line
    cell.TopBorderDistance = 100
    cell.BottomBorder = line
    cell.BottomBorderDistance = 100


g_exportedScripts = (AddBordersToAllCells, Main)

Writer file to test macro

• Download example ODT file with this macro included