On the gridlines

re: On the gridlines

Joannie Stangeland — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:00:38 GMT

Lisanyc100 --

On the Page Layout tab, in the Arrange group, click the Align, and then click Grid Settings. The Drawing Grid dialog box opens, and you can change the gridline settings.

-- Joannie

re: On the gridlines

Lisanyc100 — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:35:48 GMT

I recently obtained Microsoft Office 2010. I somehow managed to set my gridlines default showing as a drafting page (the kind with all the little small boxes.) How can I get rid of the boxes? Help!!!!

re: On the gridlines

Joannie Stangeland — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:34:48 GMT

Jacnanat --

Word doesn't support printing gridlines, because they are an alignment tool as opposed to a graphical element.

You can work around this by creating a full-page table spaced the same as the gridlines you're using and then showing borders within the table.

-- Joannie

re: On the gridlines

jacnanat — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:40:27 GMT

How do I get the gridlines on my page to print out? I guess the default is for them NOT to print, but I need them to print in one of my documents along with he other data I have entered. Is this possible?

re: On the gridlines

Joannie Stangeland — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:19:34 GMT

Jim --

If you created a new Excel object, press CTRL+A, right-click, click Format Cells, and then click the Border options that you want (be sure to choose a line weight that's heavy enough). If you're linking to content that's in a separate Excel file, you should be able to set the cell borders in the Excel file. For more answers, see http://answers.microsoft.com.

-- Joannie

re: On the gridlines

Jim — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:57:02 GMT

How do I print the gridlines in an imbedded excel spreadhseet in a word document?

re: On the gridlines

Joannie Stangeland — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:54:11 GMT

Laine --

You can add the Grid Settings command to a custom tab on the Ribbon. For more information on how to do that, see blogs.office.com/.../make-it-yours-customizing-the-word-ribbon.aspx.

-- Joannie

re: On the gridlines

Laine — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:00:19 GMT

It doesn't seem that there is a easy way to change gridline spacing in Word2010. The one way (that worked for me) is to open a document in an earlier version, adjust gridline attributes (Draw toolbar), save file then open in Word2010 the new Gridline attributes (spacing) will be there.

re: On the gridlines

Joannie Stangeland — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:41:45 GMT

Jens --

You need to open your Normal.dotm file, select the View Gridlines check box, and then save the file and close it. Note that the only way to reverse this is to open the Normal.dotm file again, clear the check box, and then save and close the file.

To find the Normal.dotm file, search for Normal.dotm.

Best wishes,

Joannie

re: On the gridlines

Leslie — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:31:18 GMT

Hi Peter,

I'm standing in for Joannie this week. My understanding is that you can change the distance between gridlines in a table, but that you cannot change the distance between gridlines on a page.

If anyone has a different answer, would you post here? Thank you!

Joannie will be back to answer your questions next week.

Leslie