Re: why does my new document look like graph paper?

Landscape Gardener

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Oct 14, 2004, 4:29:07 PM10/14/04

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Many thanks to all of you. Yes, your solution worked. I don't know why it
happened but I now suspect that setting the grid in a new programme,3D
Landscape 2, was probably to blame. It may have set Word's grid also and set
it to display the grid.
Again thanks.

Beth Melton

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Oct 14, 2004, 4:45:37 PM10/14/04

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Ah! If the program uses Word for display then that would explain it.

Unfortunately some programmers have no regard for user's preferences
and simply modify them permanently. A good programmer will temporarily
modify your settings but then set them back to exactly how they were.

I'm glad to hear you have it sorted out though. :-)

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garfield-n-odie

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Oct 14, 2004, 11:50:04 PM10/14/04

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It's been happening to me alot lately too. So far it always happens
when somebody with Word 2003 emails me their Word doc and I open it in
Word 2002. Doesn't seem to matter whether I open the attachment
directly from the email message or after saving it to the hard drive.
Neither the senders nor I have gridlines turned on, but the gridlines
are turned on in the document when I open it.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:

> I have no idea, either, but it clearly does, judging by the number of
> similar questions we've seen. Possibly the action of an add-in?
>

Beth Melton

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Oct 15, 2004, 5:26:17 PM10/15/04

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If you encounter another document like this could you email it to me?
I love a good mystery. :-)

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Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Oct 15, 2004, 11:03:52 AM10/15/04

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Bizarre!

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"Landscape Gardener" wrote:

> When I open Word 2003 the page used to be blank but it has suddenly become
> covered with squares like graph paper. The same is true of my notepaper
> templates. The sqares don't print or show in print preview but they are very
> distracting while working on the document.

Suzanne S. Barnhill

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Apr 13, 2006, 7:13:30 PM4/13/06

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On the Drawing toolbar, select Grid from the Draw menu. Clear the check box
for "Show gridlines on screen."

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Tim

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Mar 28, 2008, 1:08:00 PM3/28/08

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That solved the problem! Thanks very much!

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

> Landscape Gardener <Landscape Gard...@discussions.microsoft.com>

> wrote:
>
> >When I open Word 2003 the page used to be blank but it has suddenly become
> >covered with squares like graph paper. The same is true of my notepaper
> >templates. The sqares don't print or show in print preview but they are very
> >distracting while working on the document.
>

> Display the Drawing toolbar, click the Draw button at the left end,
> select Grid from the popup menu, and uncheck the box for "Display
> gridlines on screen".
>
> I have no idea how that box gets checked if you've never visited the
> dialog.
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>