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MS Office Forum / Word / Tables / December 2003hide gridlines of a table
I want to hide the gridlines of a table but my drop down menu for table shows a gray field for hide gridlines. Can anyone help me? thanks make sure that you have highlighted the table otherwise it won't allow you to turn off gridlines. Also, make sure that you haven't added any borders to the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. 1. yes I have highlighted the table and still it will not turn off the gridlines. In fact the menu option for hide gridlines is grayed out. 2. No I have not added any borders to the table I appreciate your help. thank you > make sure that you have highlighted the table otherwise it won't allow you to turn off gridlines. Also, make sure that you haven't added any borders to the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. Is this in a protected form? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word)  SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > 1. yes I have highlighted the table and still it will not turn off the > gridlines. In fact the menu option for hide gridlines is grayed out. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > to turn off gridlines. Also, make sure that you haven't added any borders to > the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. I don't think so but I am not 100% sure. How do I find out if it is a protected form? All I did was to go to menu reading Table then insert and then table again. Would appreciate any help you can give me on this simple yet frustrating situation. > Is this in a protected form? > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > to > > the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. If you can insert a table, the document is not protected. And (contrary to what Rhondaw says) you should be able to toggle table gridlines any time, whether in a table or not; the setting is an environmental one and will apply to all tables in the document and indeed any other documents opened from that window. If you have inserted a default table (and haven't changed the default Table AutoFormat), however, you *will* have borders. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+U will remove them. But I'm still puzzled as to why the Gridlines command should be disabled. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > I don't think so but I am not 100% sure. How do I find out if it is a > protected form? [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > to > > > the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. Suzanne Thank you for your help. For a long time I have been reading your messages in this board and have seen how helpful you have been. Today I am quite excited to be able to share with you something I just found out. I have windows xp (dont believe it is relevant to this discussion) and Excel 2000 and found out that the gridlines command do NOT really affect what is printed or not. To control the printing or in my case not to print the gridlines the following menu commands need to be followed Table Table Properties Borders and Shading Borders no fill Page Border none Shading no fill This will make the gridline command read Hide gridlines Now if I were to do the exact opposite then the gridline command will read Show Gridlines I dont know if I have been clear with this explanation but it works. Once again thank you for your help L. T. Portella > If you can insert a table, the document is not protected. And (contrary to > what Rhondaw says) you should be able to toggle table gridlines any time, [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] > > > to > > > > the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines themselves. It would have been suggested from the outset that what you were seeing was probably borders rather than gridlines if you had not presented the problem as being that the Gridlines toggle on your table menu was disabled. If in fact what you were seeing was that the command was Show Gridlines instead of Hide Gridlines, we would have known that the problem had nothing to do with gridlines. See http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/Gridlines.htm and http://home.zebra.net/~sbarnhill/HideGridlines.htm. If the application or removal of borders affects the Gridlines command on your Table menu, then something very bizarre is going on, since these should not be related in any way. OTOH, if this is a problem in Excel (as your latest post suggests), then this Word NG is totally irrelevant, anyway. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) SignatureWords into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > Suzanne > Thank you for your help. For a long time I have been reading your messages [quoted text clipped - 73 lines] > > > > > the table. that could be what you're seeing, not gridlines > themselves. Hi, I must say I'm in the same boat as L.T. I've always had trouble with the 'hide gridlines' and always have navigated my way back to the borders to get rid of the gridlines (having been away from this application for awhile, I found my way here). I really don't think L.T. is at fault for thinking the problem was with the gridline, as that is what it would seemingly be. I think it's a problem with the program, and there should at least be a default help question that responds to the question "do not print gridlines". |
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