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Philip Rubens in Science and Technical Writing: A Manual of Style
suggests that in simple tables (no more than three columns and five
rows) rules can be omitted.
Maybe your boss will buy the book for you. It has about thirty pages of
information on presenting information in tables.
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>From: Christopher Knight[SMTP:knight -at- ADA -dot- COM]
>Sent: Friday, July 25, 1997 2:54 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Rules in tables
>
>Recently I got a review back from my boss (who is not a TC professional)
>and he asked me to put horizontal & vertical rules in all my tables.
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