tables are giving me this bug where the first column's border overflows the table

OS: UBlue Aurora (derivative of Fedora Kinoite)
Version: 25.2.3.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: bbb074479178df812d175f709636b368952c2ce3
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Flatpak
Calc: threaded

it even effected the pdf exports

Here is the .odt file Module 2.odt (23.9 KB)

I don’t see the issue with Version: 24.2.7.2 on OS: Windows 10.
Will test later on Linux.

Doesn’t appear on 24.8.3.2 or earlier but does on 25.2.3.2.
Has the appearance of a bug, How to Report Bugs in LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Wiki

The thin vertical gray line prolonging the border of the first column shows that the extent of your table is quite weird. You likely made a mistake when you created the table or merged cells. And Writer gets confused.

To fix:

  1. select the whole table contents
    This will also highlight the buggy fake cell below it.)
  2. right-click the selection and Table Properties
  3. go to the Borders tab
  4. delete the borders
  5. OK

Recreate your borders.

PS: to get a better situation awareness, enable View>Formatting Marks.

Important advice: avoid direct formatting; it makes things more complicated without real benefit (a urban legend claims it is “intuitive”; it is not; it always plays nasty tricks on your back sooner or later).

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