[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 108255] "Remove Border" checkbox adds confusion, but no functionality

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108255

--- Comment #3 from Kevin <timbacontent at gmail.com> ---

> The checkbox is not for the cell itself, but for the adjacent cell; as its
> label says. In Calc borders always collapse. That means, if B2 has a right
> border and C2 has a left border, only one is shown. In case that the border
> of C2 is thicker than the border of B2, the border of C2 is shown.
> 
> When you now remove this border without checking "Remove Borders", the
> border from the cell B2 is still there and is visible now. If the option is
> checked, both borders are removed.

If you follow the steps in the spreadsheet, you'll see how broken this all is.

To review: 

1. C2 has no border; D2 has a left border
2. If you click twice to remove D2's left border (why does it first cycle
through a deceptive and apparently meaningless grey border designation?), the
Remove Border checkbox becomes active! (Why does it become active if there's no
such border to remove?)
3. If you try to do this from Cell C2, where the Remove Border checkbox would
actually be useful, there's no way to make it active so it can be used to
remove the unwanted border from the adjacent D2.

THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: Why did you implement it differently from Excel?
There's nothing to gain except confusion, frustration and extra clicks.

4. Try adding a red right border to C2 - you can't even see it unless you
remove the white border from D2. So you're saying that the point of having the
Remove Border checkbox is to allow you to remove a currently invisible border
that you just happen to remember was there underneath the one you see?

This, combined with the "red-green-blue" problem where selected text is
automatically changed because of parameters of unselected text, makes the
program incredibly painful to use.

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