get rid of grid lines in print layout view

[caro...@officeformac.com]

I want to get rid of the grid lines in the print layout view where I correct student papers. They are distracting and ugly.

[CyberTaz]

Assuming these are actually gridlines turn on the drawing Toolbar, click the
Draw button & select Grid..., then clear the checkbox near the bottom of the
Drawing Grid dialog window.

If that isn't the solution they are some other type of lines so we'll need
more detail about them as well as which version of Word you're using.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 1/17/08 8:03 PM, in article ee890...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

[caro...@officeformac.com]

Hello Bob Jones. I grew up with a Bob Jones on Castle Point in Hoboken NJ.

I am using the new Word 2008 for Mac and the "gridlines" are found in the Print Layout View. As I said before, they are distracting and ugly. Is there a way to get rid of them and have a clean sheet of "paper"?

Thank you.

[CyberTaz]

Hi Caroline -

Never been to Hoboken, although I had an uncle who lived near Camden:-)

In Word 2008 go to View> Toolbars & select Drawing. On that toolbar you'll
find a Grid Options button which elicits a dialog window where you'll find
the checkbox I referred to in the previous reply: Display gridlines on
screen. Clear the check to turn the gridlines off.

This, however, is a document-specific setting, so you'll have to do the same
for any doc you open if it has the grid showing. Save the file once you turn
off the grid to avoid having it reappear the next time the file is opened.

Your original message indicated that this was a problem with docs received
from students, so you might want to pass the instruction on to them to turn
the grid off before submitting the doc. Your more recent post suggests that
the grid is appearing in new blank doc you're creating as well. If that's
the case, when you go into the Grid Options as described above click the
Default button & confirm the change after you clear the checkbox.

Should the drawing grid prove to not be the problem we'll need a more vivid
description of what this "grid" looks like & exactly where it's positioned.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 1/18/08 8:23 PM, in article ee89...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

[Unknown]

I've just starting using Office Mac 2008, and I too have noticed gridlines on some of the papers that my students are turning in. Your suggestion to go to the drawing toolbar works, for turning these lines off. My question is this: are students actually choosing to write with a grid as background? The files in questions all load in compatability mode, so I assume they're created as .doc, not .docx. Or is Word adding the gridlines to these documents on its own?

[CyberTaz]

Hi Dennis -

All I can tell you is that I've never seen Word "mysteriously" apply the
grid in any version nor have I seen any reports of such behavior. I can only
conclude that the users are turning the grid on.

Not to appear jaded, but there is another [valid] implication here other
than that a number of students just happened to start using the grid &
leaving it on... You may be getting separate copies of the *same paper* as a
result of the file having been passed around & nobody knows how to turn the
grid *off*:-)

Regards |:>)

Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

On 2/11/08 5:04 PM, in article ee89...@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw, "Dennis

[Phillip Jones]

No you have showing in "Notebook" view and did you save it while in that
view. 2004 if you created a document in Notebook view (short for school
notebook would have lines across and one or two line down next to where
you would punch the Holes to put in a notebook. anything created in that
view would be saved in that view.

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