BorderLiner

BorderLiner is a useful extension for LibreOffice designed to help you draw borders in tables and some text elements in OpenOffice.org Writer and Calc.

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

The extension does not come as a resource burden for the LibreOffice suite in any way, regardless of whether you are looking at performance spikes, or the overall memory usage of the program when viewed through the task manager.

As for the visuals, BorderLiner does not dramatically change the way the LibreOffice programs look, so users can rest assured that they won't have any problems using it post-enhancement.

Among the other available commands, we can mention: ALT+2 to draw a bottom line, CTRL+2 to pick the line style of the bottom line or and SHIFT+2 to delete the bottom line etc.

Within the Calc app, you can also use the mouse to manually draw borders through drag and drop.