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<div>At 11:26 AM -0500 1/28/08, Jonathan Hanson wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Hello,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I believe that there is a command that
suppresses the drawing of vertical lines for a particular row in a
table, but I can't remember it and can't find seem to find it
anywhere. I want to create n-by-n boxes with labels on the left
and top sides for each row/column, and I can't get rid of the vertical
lines extending above the box.</blockquote>
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<div>Perhaps the easiest way to do this is to use
\multicolumn{1}{c}{label} for each of your labels on the top.</div>
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<div>For Jonathan's problem:</div>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">\begin{tabular}{c|c|c|}<br>
\multicolumn{1}{c}{}&\multicolumn{1}{c}{label1}&\multicolumn{<span
></span>1}{c}{label2}\\<br>
\cline{2-3}<br>
row1 & cell 1 & cell 2\\<br>
\cline{2-3}<br>
row2 & cell 3 & cell 4\\<br>
\cline{2-3}<br>
\end{tabular}</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">At 12:32 PM -0500 1/28/08, Alain
Schremmer wrote:</font></tt></div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>However, and not to highjack the thread,
I would also like a table in which the upper left cell has no left and
no top line.</blockquote>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">For Alain's problem:</font></tt></div>
<div><tt><font color="#000000"><br>
\begin{tabular}{|c|c|c|}<br>
\cline{2-3}<br>
\multicolumn{1}{c|}{} & label1 & label2\\<br>
\hline<br>
row1 & cell 1 & cell 2\\<br>
\hline<br>
row2 & cell 3 & cell 4\\<br>
\hline<br>
\end{tabular}</font></tt></div>
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<div>Alan</div>
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