You can either show or hide gridlines on a worksheet in Excel for the web. On the View tab, in the Show group, select the Gridlines check box to show gridlines, or clear the check box to hide them.

To show the gridlines, in Excel, PowerPoint, or Word, click the View tab, and then select the Gridlines check box. To hide the gridlines, clear the Gridlines check box.

On the Design tab, in the Chart Layouts group, click Add Chart Element, point to Gridlines, and then click the gridline option you want to hide. You can rest your mouse pointer over each option to …

By default, gridlines don't appear on a printed Microsoft Excel worksheet or workbook. This article describes how you can make the gridlines appear in your printed worksheets.

Showing or hiding table gridlines shows or hides gridlines for every table in your document. Unlike table borders, you can't print table gridlines with your document.

To snap shapes or other objects to grid lines that go through the vertical and horizontal edges of other shapes or objects, click Snap to Shape. Gray highlighting indicating the option is selected turns on.

By default, gridlines are displayed in worksheets using the color that is assigned to Automatic. To change the color of gridlines, you can use the following procedure.

Tip When you change the fill colors of the cells on a worksheet, the gridlines can become difficult to see. To make the gridlines stand out on the screen, you can experiment with border and line styles. …

Gridlines help give you visual cues when you're formatting in PowerPoint. To turn on or off the Gridlines, go to the View tab and select the Gridlines checkbox.

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