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Display or hide gridlines in a table

Gridlines form the cell boundaries and are not printed. All tables by default have a black ½-point, single-line, solid-line border that is printed. If you remove this border, the gridlines remain until you hide them.

• On the Table menu, click Show Gridlines or Hide Gridlines.

Note  Gridlines are not visible when viewing a document in a Web browser.

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Table of contents

• Startup and Settings
  • What's new in Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • What's new in Microsoft Office 2003
  • About product activation in Microsoft Office System products
  • Disclaimer: Use of Fictitious Names
  • Terms of Use
  • Getting Help
    • Get help about Web Discussions
    • About getting help while you work
    • Icons in the Search Results task pane
    • Show or hide the Type a question for help box
    • Change the appearance of a Help topic
    • Print a Help topic
    • Troubleshoot Help
    • The Office Assistant
      • About tips and messages from the Office Assistant
      • Select a different Office Assistant
      • Display tips and messages through the Office Assistant
      • Hide or show the Office Assistant
      • Turn the Office Assistant sound on or off
      • Show or hide the Office Assistant in wizards
    • Programmability
      • Turn on or off Trust access to Visual Basic Project
    • Other Resources
      • About the Office Resource Kit
      • Open the Office Readme file
      • Get Help for Visual Basic for Applications in Word
      • Get help from Microsoft Product Support services
      • Macro language support is disabled
      • Show the Tip of the Day when an Office program starts
      • Macros for changing and troubleshooting Word settings
      • Automatically update this list from the Web
      • Microsoft Office Online
        • About Office Communities
        • Search for help, templates, and additional online content on Microsoft Office Online
        • Complete an Office Web-based training course
        • Give feedback for Microsoft Office Online or an Office program
        • Turn Microsoft Office Online featured links on or off
  • Accessibility
    • About accessibility for people with disabilities
    • About creating accessible Office documents
    • Accessibility features in Office Help
    • Accessibility features in Word
    • Using screen readers with Help
    • Keyboard Shortcuts
      • About shortcut keys
      • Keyboard shortcuts
      • Assign or remove a shortcut key
      • Assign a keyboard shortcut to a style
      • Print a list of shortcut keys
      • Keyboard shortcuts for international characters
      • ALT GR keys
      • Restore shortcut keys to their original settings
  • Installing and Customizing
    • Install or remove individual components in Office
    • Show or hide ScreenTips
    • Get information about your program and computer
    • Show or hide the list of recently used documents on the File menu
    • Change Office's appearance
    • Open an Office Binder file
    • Customize how Word starts
    • Toolbars and Commands
      • About menus and toolbars
      • Add a button, menu, or command
      • Assign a hyperlink to a toolbar button or menu command
      • Delete a button or menu command
      • Items that appear in the status bar
      • Move or copy a button, menu, or menu command
      • Assign or change a keyboard accelerator
      • Create a custom toolbar
      • Group related buttons and menus on a toolbar
      • Move a submenu anywhere on the screen
      • Customize a shortcut menu
      • Rename a button, menu command, or menu
      • Delete a toolbar or menu
      • Show or hide a toolbar
      • Move a toolbar
      • Show all buttons or commands
      • Animate menus
      • Resize a toolbar
      • Add, change, or delete sounds used with buttons and menu commands
      • Change a picture on a button
      • Change the size of a toolbar button or drop-down list box
      • Display an icon, text or both on a menu command or button
      • Rename a custom toolbar
      • Restore original settings for buttons, commands, or toolbars
      • Show or hide toolbar ScreenTips
      • Show or hide shortcut keys in ScreenTips
      • Troubleshoot toolbars and menus
    • Troubleshoot Installing Office
      • About Office Safe Mode
      • Enable items that were disabled by Office Safe Mode
      • Recover a program that is not responding
      • Automatically repair Office programs
      • Troubleshoot installing an Office program
    • Global Templates and Add-ins
      • About loading and unloading global templates and add-in programs
      • Load or unload a global template or add-in program
      • Load or unload a Component Object Model (COM) add-in program
  • Using Microsoft Office
    • About the default working folder
    • Change the default working folder
    • About Microsoft Office Document Imaging
    • Show the vertical ruler or scroll bar
    • Automatically start an Office program when you turn on your computer
    • Change the program that starts when you open a file
    • Copy the window or screen contents
    • Show or hide multiple program buttons on the Windows Taskbar
    • What happened to the Office Shortcut Bar?
    • Change the screen resolution
    • Minimize a window
    • Minimize all program windows on the Windows desktop
    • Restore a minimized window
    • Show all windows on the Windows desktop
    • Format a disk
    • Prompt to open a file as read-only
    • Office Clipboard
      • About collecting and pasting multiple items
      • Display the contents of the Office Clipboard
      • Clear items from the Office Clipboard
      • Turn off the Office Clipboard
      • Turn Office Clipboard command options on or off
    • Instant Messaging
      • About Instant Messaging
      • Send an instant message
      • Enable instant message smart tags
  • Managing Files
    • Save a document
    • About saving documents
    • Troubleshoot opening files
    • Open a file
    • Rename a file
    • Select multiple files
    • Add an open file to the Favorites folder
    • About Rich Text Format documents
    • Save an Office document as a TIFF file
    • Set a default file format for saving new documents
    • Troubleshoot saving documents
    • Troubleshoot saving files
    • Turn off fast saves
    • View all hidden file types and file name extensions
    • Moving, Copying, and Deleting Files
      • Move a file
      • Copy a file
      • Delete a file
      • Add or delete a shortcut from the My Places bar
      • Connect to a network drive
      • Go back to the previous drive, folder, or Internet location
    • File Properties
      • About file properties
      • View file properties
      • Change the author name for new documents
      • Create custom file properties
      • Set or change file properties
      • Modify custom file properties
      • Remove custom file properties
      • Troubleshoot file properties
    • File Recovery
      • About document recovery
      • Change the save interval for automatic file recovery
      • Recover files
      • Troubleshoot file recovery
      • Recover the text from a damaged document
      • Specify a location for automatically recovered files
    • Document Backup
      • About preventing loss of work
      • Save a backup copy of a document
      • Open a backup copy of a document
    • Document Versions
      • About saving versions of a document
      • Save multiple versions of a document
      • Open an earlier version of a document
      • Review version information
      • Save a version of a document as a separate file
      • Delete one or more versions of a document
      • Troubleshoot versioning
    • Finding Files
      • About places to save files
      • About finding files
      • Find a file
      • Troubleshoot finding files
  • Handwriting and Speech
    • Show or hide the Language bar
    • Tablet PC Ink
      • About ink features in Office
      • About using ink in Word
      • Insert ink in a document
      • Insert an ink comment
      • About locking document layout for ink annotations
      • Mark up a document with ink annotations
      • Select ink
      • Copy and paste ink
      • Delete ink
      • Change color of ink
      • About using ink in e-mail messages
      • Insert ink in an e-mail message
      • Switch pens
      • Change thickness of ink
      • Resize ink
      • Troubleshoot ink in Word
      • Troubleshoot ink in e-mail messages
    • Handwriting Recognition
      • About handwriting recognition
      • Install handwriting recognition
      • Handwriting recognition toolbars
      • Use handwriting recognition
      • Change handwriting recognition options
      • Troubleshoot handwriting recognition
      • Use handwriting tools to draw
      • Correct handwriting
      • Convert writing in handwritten form to typed text
      • Turn on or off saving handwritten input data
      • East Asian Languages
        • About handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
        • Use handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
        • Change handwriting recognition options in East Asian languages
        • Use handwriting tools to draw in East Asian languages
        • Change the handwriting recognition language
        • Correct handwriting in East Asian languages
        • Handwriting recognition toolbars in East Asian languages
        • Troubleshoot handwriting recognition in East Asian languages
    • Speech Recognition
      • About speech recognition
      • Getting started with speech recognition
      • Install and train speech recognition
      • Things you can do and say with speech recognition
      • Use speech recognition
      • How to speak to a computer
      • Position the speech recognition microphone
      • Turn on or off the speech recognition microphone
      • Create and use speech recognition user profiles
      • Format text by using speech recognition
      • Switch between using Dictation and Voice Command modes
      • Add to or delete from the speech recognition dictionary
      • Change speech recognition engines
      • Correct speech recognition errors
      • Language bar speech recognition messages
      • Turn on or off saving speech input data
      • Troubleshoot speech recognition
• Creating Documents
  • About installing wizards and templates
  • Use settings from another document or template
  • Insert another file into an open document
  • Create a folded booklet
  • Using Wizards
    • Create a document
    • Create a letter
    • Modify an existing letter by using the Letter Wizard
    • Modify frequently used text in letters
    • Create a résumé
    • Create a new e-mail message
    • Create a document template
    • Create a legal pleading
    • Create a memo
    • Create an agenda
    • Create a calendar
  • Converting Documents
    • Turn on or off features introduced in recent versions of Word
    • About opening and saving in other file formats
    • Convert documents
    • Install a converter that's supplied with Word
    • Show or hide the Convert File dialog box
    • About file format converters
    • Set options for converting documents
    • Saving a document in a file format that cannot support specific features
    • Move files between Windows and the Macintosh
    • Using WordPerfect and Word
    • Troubleshoot file conversion
  • Templates
    • About templates
    • About template locations
    • About using settings from another document or template
    • Copy AutoText entries to another template
    • Modify a document template
    • Copy custom toolbars to another document or template
    • Troubleshoot templates and letters
    • Remove a tab from the Templates dialog box
  • Headers and Footers
    • About headers and footers
    • Insert headers and footers
    • Insert the chapter number and title in a header or footer
    • Change headers or footers
    • Position headers and footers
    • Delete a header or footer
    • Troubleshoot headers and footers
  • Master Documents
    • About master documents
    • Combine or split subdocuments
    • Convert a subdocument into part of the master document
    • Create a master document and subdocuments
    • Delete a subdocument from a master document
    • Expand or collapse subdocuments
    • Insert an existing Word document into a master document
    • Lock or unlock a subdocument
    • Open a subdocument from within a master document
    • Add page numbers to a master document or subdocuments
    • Print a master document
    • Rearrange subdocuments within a master document
    • Rename a subdocument
    • Troubleshoot master documents and subdocuments
• Viewing and Navigating Documents
  • About ways to view a Word document
  • Select a document view
  • Arrange Word documents on the screen
  • Move around in a document
  • View two parts of a document simultaneously
  • Compare documents side by side
  • Zoom in on or out of a document
  • Show or hide formatting marks
  • Show or hide white space in print layout view
  • Display or hide scroll bars
  • Display a blue window background
  • Change the default unit of measure
  • What do the underlines in my document mean?
  • I see something unusual in my document
  • Troubleshoot document views and screen displays
  • Document Map
    • About the Document Map
    • Navigate a document with the Document Map
    • Change the width of the Document Map
    • Format text in the Document Map pane
    • Troubleshoot the Document Map
  • Reading Layout View
    • About reading layout view
    • Use reading layout view
    • Troubleshoot reading layout view
  • Outline View
    • About viewing a document as an outline
    • Create an outline from scratch
    • Collapse an outline to view a document's organization
    • Reorganize a document by using outline view
    • Text formatting in outline view
    • Troubleshoot outline view
• Formatting Documents
  • Margins and Page Setup
    • About page margins
    • Change page margins
    • Select page orientation
    • Select paper size
    • Create a right-to-left folded booklet
    • Troubleshoot margins and page orientation
  • Page and Line Numbers
    • About line numbers
    • Add line numbers
    • Restart page numbering for each chapter
    • Add page numbers
    • Format page numbers
    • Remove line numbers
    • Remove page numbers
    • Display or hide the page number on the first page
    • Position page numbers outside the header or footer
    • Specify how to start or restart page numbering
    • Skip line numbers for specific paragraphs
    • Troubleshoot page numbers and line numbers
  • Page and Section Breaks
    • About page breaks and pagination
    • About sections and section breaks
    • Control pagination
    • Insert a manual page break
    • Change the type of section break
    • Delete a section break
    • Insert a section break
    • Troubleshoot page breaks and section breaks
  • Tables, Lists, and Columns
    • Tables
      • About tables
      • Office programs you can use to create a table
      • Automatically format a table
      • Add a cell, row, or column to a table
      • Change the cell margins in a table
      • Change the position of text in a table
      • Control where a table is divided
      • Convert text to a table or vice versa
      • Copy a table
      • Create a new table style
      • Create a table
      • Delete a cell, row, or column from a table
      • Delete a table or clear its contents
      • Display or hide gridlines in a table
      • Edit a list in a table by using a data form
      • Insert a tab in a table cell
      • Insert text before a table
      • Merge cells into one cell in a table
      • Move or copy items in a table
      • Number the cells in a table
      • Perform calculations in a table
      • Position a table on a page
      • Referencing cells in a table
      • Repeat a table heading on subsequent pages
      • Resize all or part of a table
      • Split a cell into multiple cells in a table
      • Split a table
      • Locate specific records in a large table
      • Troubleshoot tables
    • Bulleted and Numbered Lists
      • About bulleted and numbered lists
      • Add bullets or numbering
      • Add picture bullets or symbols to lists
      • Add numbering to items in paragraph text
      • Add numbers to headings
      • Create a new list style
      • Convert bullets to numbers and vice versa
      • Adjust spacing between a list bullet or number and the text
      • Change the numbering sequence in lists
      • Create a multiple-level picture bullet list
      • Create an outline numbered list
      • Include multiple outline numbers on a single line
      • Combine lists into one list
      • Modify bulleted or numbered list formats
      • Restore a customized list format to its original setting
      • Remove bullets or numbering
      • Turn on or off automatic bulleted or numbered lists
      • Troubleshoot bulleted and numbered lists
    • Newsletter-Style Columns
      • About newsletter-style layout
      • Add vertical lines between newsletter-style columns
      • Balance newsletter-style column length on a page
      • Change the number of newsletter-style columns
      • Change the width of newsletter-style columns
      • Create a heading that spans newsletter-style columns
      • Create newsletter-style columns
      • Display or hide newsletter-style column boundaries
      • Force the start of a new newsletter-style column
      • Remove newsletter-style columns
      • Troubleshoot newsletter-style columns
    • Linked Text Boxes
      • Break a text box link
      • Continue a story elsewhere with linked text boxes
      • Change the shape of the
      • Copy or move linked text boxes
      • Delete a linked text box without deleting text
      • Flow text side-by-side with linked text boxes
      • Move among linked text boxes in a story
      • Troubleshoot linked text boxes
    • Sorting Lists and Tables
      • About sorting
      • Sort a list or table
      • Sort according to the rules of another language
      • Troubleshoot sorting
  • Tables of Contents, Index, and Tables of Figures
    • Change the appearance of a table of contents, index, table of authorities, or table of figures
    • Delete an index, table of authorities, or table of figures
    • Update an index, table of contents, table of figures, or table of authorities
    • Troubleshoot a table of figures or table of authorities
    • Table of Contents
      • About creating a table of contents
      • Create a table of contents
      • Delete a table of contents
      • Troubleshoot tables of contents
    • Index
      • About creating an index
      • Create an index
      • Delete an index entry
      • Edit or format an index entry
      • Troubleshoot indexes
    • Table of Figures
      • Create a table of figures
    • Table of Authorities
      • About creating a table of authorities
      • Create a table of authorities
      • Add or change a citation category for a table of authorities
      • Edit or format a table of authorities entry
      • Delete an entry from a table of authorities
  • Cross-References, Captions, and Bookmarks
    • Cross-References
      • About cross-references
      • Change a cross-reference
      • Create a cross-reference
      • Paragraph number options in cross-references
      • Troubleshoot cross-references
    • Captions
      • About captions
      • Add captions
      • Change captions
      • Include chapter numbers in captions
      • Create a new caption label
      • Troubleshoot captions
    • Bookmarks
      • Add a bookmark
      • Delete a bookmark
      • Go to a specific bookmark
      • Show bookmarks
      • Troubleshoot bookmarks
  • Footnotes and Endnotes
    • About footnotes and endnotes
    • Change or remove a footnote or endnote separator
    • Change the number format of footnotes or endnotes
    • Change the placement of footnotes and endnotes
    • Continue footnote and endnote numbering from one document to another
    • Convert footnotes to endnotes and vice versa
    • Create a footnote or endnote continuation notice
    • Delete a footnote or an endnote
    • Insert a footnote or an endnote
    • Move or copy a footnote or endnote
    • Refer to the same footnote or endnote more than once
    • Restart footnote or endnote numbering from 1
    • View footnotes and endnotes
    • Print endnotes on a separate page
    • Troubleshoot footnotes and endnotes
  • Styles and Reusing Formatting
    • About checking the consistency of formatting
    • Check formatting for consistency
    • Troubleshoot format checking
    • About formatting text by using styles
    • Select all text with the same formatting
    • Reuse formatting
    • View or apply styles with the Style Gallery
    • Create a new style
    • Modify a style
    • Rename styles
    • Copy styles to another document or template
    • Apply a different style
    • Delete styles
    • Specify that one paragraph style follow another
    • Automatically update a paragraph style
    • Restrict formatting of a document
    • Display paragraph style names in the document window
    • Display or hide the Styles and Formatting task pane
    • Turn on or off automatic style definition
    • Turn on or off format tracking
    • Reveal formatting
    • Compare the formatting of two text selections
    • Troubleshoot using styles and applying formatting
  • AutoSummarize
    • About automatically summarizing a document
    • Automatically summarize a document
    • Troubleshoot automatically summarizing a document
• Working with Text
  • Select text and graphics
  • Specify how Word selects text
  • Change typing and editing options
  • Troubleshoot selecting text
  • Troubleshoot Overtype
  • Copy and Paste
    • About the format of pasted information
    • Move or copy text and graphics
    • Turn on or off drag-and-drop editing
    • Turn on or off the Paste Options button
    • Troubleshoot collecting and pasting
    • Use the Spike to move text and graphics from nonadjacent locations
  • Find and Replace
    • Find and replace text or other items
    • Troubleshoot finding and replacing text or other items
  • Repeat and Undo Actions
    • Repeat your last action
    • Undo mistakes
  • Spelling, Grammar, and Thesaurus
    • About spelling, grammar, and the thesaurus
    • Troubleshoot spelling, grammar, and other proofing tools
    • Spelling and Grammar
      • Check spelling and grammar
      • Check the spelling and grammar of text in another language
      • Create and use custom dictionaries
      • Remove a custom dictionary
      • Set spelling and grammar preferences
      • Specify a preferred spelling for a word
      • Turn on or off automatic spelling and grammar checking
      • Grammar and writing style options
      • Show or hide wavy underlines
      • Readability scores
      • Display readability statistics
  • Symbols, Characters, and Hyphenation
    • About symbols and special characters
    • Insert a symbol
    • Insert a special character
    • Display and enter the euro and other currency symbols
    • Assign a shortcut key to a symbol or special character
    • Automatically insert an arrow, face, or other symbol
    • About hyphenation
    • Hyphenate text
    • Hyphenate text in another language
    • Insert a nonbreaking hyphen
    • Insert an optional hyphen
    • Remove hyphenation
  • Formatting Characters
    • Animate text
    • About applying formatting
    • Apply bold formatting
    • Apply embossed, engraved, outlined, or shadow formatting to text
    • Apply italic formatting
    • Show or hide actual fonts in the font list
    • Apply strikethrough formatting
    • Capitalize text
    • Change the color of text
    • Change the font
    • Apply or remove highlighting
    • Change the size of text
    • Change the spacing between characters
    • Remove formatting from text
    • Create a large dropped initial capital letter
    • Display or hide text animation
    • Hide text
    • Make text superscript or subscript
    • Remove a large dropped initial capital letter
    • Remove animation from text
    • Set the default font
    • Stretch or scale text horizontally
    • Underline text
    • Troubleshoot text formatting
  • Formatting Paragraphs
    • About text alignment and spacing
    • Adjust line or paragraph spacing
    • Align text left or right
    • Center text
    • Change the spacing between default tab stops
    • Change the vertical alignment of text
    • Clear or move tab stops
    • Indent paragraphs
    • Insert a tab in an outline
    • Justify text
    • Set tab stops
    • Insert a manual line break
    • Vary alignment within a single line of text
    • Troubleshoot line and paragraph spacing
    • Insert a tab in a table cell
  • Automatic Text Options
    • Automatically insert the current date
    • Insert the current date and time
    • Insert the date and time a document was created, last printed, or last saved
    • AutoCorrect
      • About automatic corrections
      • Automatically correct text as you type
      • Automatically correct text as you type in another language
      • Create or change automatic corrections
      • Delete an AutoCorrect entry
      • Turn on or off AutoCorrect options
      • Troubleshoot automatic corrections
    • AutoComplete
      • Turn on or off AutoComplete
    • AutoText
      • About inserting frequently used text and graphics
      • Create or change an AutoText entry
      • Delete an AutoText entry
      • Insert an AutoText entry
      • Troubleshoot inserting frequently used text and graphics
    • AutoFormat
      • About automatic formatting
      • Automatic formatting results
      • Automatically format hyphens as en dashes and em dashes
      • Change curly quotes to straight quotes and vice versa
      • Review AutoFormat changes
      • Format a document automatically
      • Turn off automatic formatting when Word is your e-mail editor
      • Turn on or off automatic formatting
      • Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks
      • Troubleshoot automatic formatting
    • Click and Type
      • About Click and Type
      • Use Click and Type to insert text and graphics
      • Troubleshoot Click and Type
  • Word Count
    • About word count
    • Count words
• Working with Graphics and Charts
  • About graphics in Word
  • Select text and graphics
  • Position graphics and text
  • Change the default positioning of graphics
  • Add text to a drawing object or picture
  • Change the text-wrapping style for a picture or drawing object
  • Change the orientation of text
  • Determine if a picture is a bitmap or a drawn picture
  • Resize or crop graphics
  • About grouping and ungrouping objects
  • About Portable Network Graphics (.png) format
  • About stacking objects
  • Group, ungroup, or regroup objects
  • Move an object forward or backward
  • Save graphics in .png format
  • Set defaults for new picture or shape style
  • Troubleshoot graphics
  • Turn the drawing canvas on or off
  • Managing and Viewing Graphics
    • Arranging, aligning, and distributing graphics
    • Graphics file types Word can use
    • Speed up scrolling by hiding graphics
    • Convert embedded objects into graphics
    • Change the default program for editing imported graphics
    • Ways to reduce file size
  • Shapes and Drawing Objects
    • About shapes
    • Add a shape
    • Change the text in WordArt
    • Align and arrange drawing objects
    • Change a shape to another shape
    • Add WordArt
    • Change the drawing grid
    • Create a drawing
    • Delete a drawing object
    • Reshape a shape
    • Move a drawing object or set of objects
    • Flip an object
    • Create a mirror image of an object
    • Rotate an object
    • Apply the same height and width to different objects
    • Show or hide drawing gridlines
    • Create a callout or label that includes a leader
    • Change a callout leader
    • About WordArt
  • Borders, Shading, and Graphic Fills
    • About borders, shading, and graphic fills
    • Add a border
    • Add shading, color, or graphic fills
    • Change a border
    • Change shading, color, or graphic fills
    • Remove a border
    • Remove shading, colors, or graphic fills
    • Troubleshoot borders, shading, and graphic effects
  • Backgrounds and Watermarks
    • About backgrounds and watermarks
    • Add a background or watermark
    • Change a background or watermark
    • Remove a background or watermark
    • Troubleshoot backgrounds and watermarks
  • Pictures and Clip Art
    • Pictures
      • About pictures
      • Insert a picture
      • Change an inline picture to a floating picture, and vice versa
      • Wrap text
      • Create transparent areas in a picture
      • Undo all changes to a picture
      • Change the contrast or brightness of a picture
      • About transparent areas
      • Crop a picture
      • About reducing a picture's file size
      • Troubleshoot working with a scanner or camera
    • Clip Art
      • About finding clips
      • Find a clip
      • Find similar clips
      • Preview a clip
      • Insert a clip
      • View clip properties
      • Tips for finding clips
      • Clip Organizer
        • About the Clip Organizer
        • Add a clip to the Clip Organizer
        • Open Clip Organizer from an Office program
  • 3-D and Shadows
    • About 3-D effects and shadows
    • Add a 3-D effect to a drawing object
    • Add or remove a shadow
    • Add or remove an embossed or engraved effect from a shape
    • Change a 3-D drawing object
    • Change the shadow of a drawing object
    • Remove a 3-D effect from a drawing object
    • Remove a shadow from a drawing object
  • Text Boxes
    • Insert a text box
    • The difference between a text box and a frame
    • Convert a text box to a frame and vice versa
    • Change the margins around text in a shape or text box
    • Resize a frame or text box
    • Remove a frame
  • Lines and Connectors
    • About connector lines
    • Add a line
    • Draw a curve
    • Draw a freeform shape
    • Draw a line or connector
    • Add or remove arrowheads
    • Move or reroute a connector
    • Change the shape of a freeform or curve
    • Format a line or connector
  • Charts and Diagrams
    • Create a chart
    • Draw a flowchart
    • Change a flowchart
    • About organization charts
    • Add an organization chart
    • Change an organization chart
    • About diagrams
    • Add a diagram
    • Change a diagram
    • Delete an organization chart or diagram
    • Resize a diagram or organization chart
    • Troubleshoot diagrams and organization charts
• Printing
  • Print a document
  • Preview a page before printing
  • Print a folded booklet
  • Print a document to a file
  • Cancel printing
  • Edit text in print preview
  • Troubleshoot printing
  • Set Up Printer
    • Find a printer
    • Set up a new printer
    • Set the default printer
  • Print Options
    • Select a paper source
    • Print property information or other details
    • Prevent a document from printing onto an additional page
    • Check the progress of your print job
    • Scale a document to fit on different paper sizes
    • Print more than one copy
    • Turn on or off background printing
    • Update fields or linked information before you print
    • Use different paper for a part of a document
• Security and Privacy
  • More about security options and connecting to a server
  • Privacy
    • Microsoft Office Word 2003 Privacy Statement
    • Microsoft Office Activation/Registration Privacy Statement
    • Remove personal or hidden information
  • Security
    • Passwords
      • About using passwords
      • Remove or change a password
      • Require a password to open or modify a file
      • Troubleshoot passwords
    • Digital Signatures
      • About digital signatures
      • Create your own digital certificate
      • Add a digital signature to a file or macro project
      • Remove a digital signature
      • Review digital certificates for a file or macro project
    • Macros
      • About .NET Macro Security
      • Macro security levels
      • Change the security level for macro virus protection
      • Protect against macro viruses
      • Warn about installed templates and add-ins
      • About helping protect files from macro viruses
      • Modify the list of trusted publishers for macros
      • Troubleshoot modifying the list of trusted publishers for macros
      • Troubleshoot macro security and warnings
• Mass Mailings
  • Create a directory of names, addresses, and other information
  • Envelopes and Labels
    • About creating and printing a single envelope
    • Create and print labels for a mass mailing
    • Insert an address from an electronic address book
    • Specify a default return address
    • Add electronic postage to an envelope or label
    • Create and print a single envelope
    • Create and print envelopes for a mass mailing
    • Customize envelopes
    • Print an envelope that is attached to a document
    • Troubleshoot envelopes and labels
    • Include a POSTNET bar code or FIM-A code on envelopes or labels
    • About creating and printing labels for a single item or address
    • Create and print labels for a single item or address
    • Create custom mailing labels
    • Customize labels
  • Mail Merge
    • Create and distribute merged faxes
    • About mail merge data sources
    • About mail merge for form letters and mass mailings
    • Create and print form letters
    • Data sources you can use for a mail merge
    • Select a different data source for a main document
    • Restore a mail merge main document to a regular document
    • Resume a mail merge
    • Select recipients to include in a mail merge
    • Troubleshoot mail merge
    • About mail-merge fields
    • Add fields to a form letter or other mail-merge document
    • Format merged data
    • Print merged documents
    • Create and distribute merged e-mail messages
• Word and the Web
  • Add or remove an FTP site from the list of Internet sites
  • Change the logon name or password for an FTP site
  • Creating Web Pages
    • About creating a Web page
    • About using filtered HTML
    • About international characters and symbols on Web pages
    • About single file Web pages (MHTML)
    • Create a Web page
    • Add scrolling text to a Web page
    • Add a title to a Web page
    • Reduce Web page size by filtering HTML
    • Set the font for a Web page or plain-text file that you open
    • Change HTML DIV borders
    • View the HTML source of a Web page
    • Provide alternate text and images for the Web
    • Turn on or off Design mode
    • Preview a document as a Web page
    • Optimize Web pages for a specific browser
    • Turn off features not supported by Web browsers
    • Set the encoding for a Web page
    • Troubleshoot Web pages
  • Frames and Frames Pages
    • About links in Web frames
    • About moving Web frames and frames pages
    • About Web frames
    • Working with frames pages
    • Create a frames page
    • Create a table of contents in a Web frame
    • Name a Web frame
    • Remove a Web frame
    • Resize a Web frame in a frames page
    • Save an individual Web frame
    • Show or hide Web frames borders
    • Turn on or off Web frame resizing
    • Turn on or off scroll bars in a Web frame
    • Troubleshoot Web frames and frames pages
  • Themes
    • About themes
    • Apply a theme
    • Change a theme
    • Choose a default theme
    • Remove a theme
    • Troubleshoot themes
  • Cascading Style Sheets
    • About attaching cascading style sheets
    • Attach cascading style sheets
    • Change the order of cascading style sheets
    • Detach cascading style sheets
    • Specify that only cascading style sheets are used for formatting Web pages
  • Hyperlinks
    • Create a hyperlink
    • Format a hyperlink
    • Change a hyperlink
    • Edit an image that represents a hyperlink
    • Remove a hyperlink
    • Set a hyperlink base
    • Change the default for following hyperlinks
    • About link bars on Web pages
    • Add link bars
    • Turn on or off automatic formatting of hyperlinks
    • Change link bars
    • Troubleshoot link bars
  • Movies and Sounds
    • Insert a movie
    • Insert a sound
    • Remove a movie, background sound, or scrolling text from a Web page
  • Web Scripting
    • Scripts
      • About Web scripts
      • Create a Web script on a Web page
      • View or edit a Web script
      • Copy or move a Web script
      • Change the default script language
      • Remove Web scripts from a Web page
      • Show or hide script anchors on a Web page
      • Troubleshoot Web scripts
    • Java Applets
      • About Java applet support
      • Copy or move a Java applet
      • Remove a Java applet from a Web page
  • XML
    • About XML documents in Word
    • Apply or remove XML tags
    • Show or hide XML tags
    • Display XML element names
    • About the Schema Library
    • Add or remove XML schemas in the Schema Library
    • Attach or separate an XML schema and a document
    • Validate XML
    • Insert XML data
    • Define a default data view for an XML document
    • Apply an XSL Transformation
    • Save an XML document
    • Set default save options for XML files
    • Prevent accidental deletion of XML elements
    • Troubleshoot XML in Word
  • Browsing and Searching Web Pages
    • Speed up downloading Web pages by using Vector Markup Language
    • View your Web start page
    • Change your Web start page
    • Change your Web search page
    • Cancel the display of a Web page or hyperlink
    • Refresh the display of the active file or Web page
    • Show only Web toolbar buttons
  • Research Services
    • About research services
    • Add or change research services
    • Look up words in the dictionary
    • Look up words in the thesaurus
    • Research search tips
    • Reference Encarta Encyclopedia
  • Translation Services
    • About translation services
    • Translate text
• Sharing Information
  • With Other People
    • Markup
      • About tracked changes and comments
      • About saving, sending, or editing a document with tracked changes
      • About displaying tracked changes and comments
      • Add or change the name used in comments
      • Track changes while you edit
      • Turn off change tracking
      • Review tracked changes and comments
      • Show or hide the Reviewing Pane
      • Insert a comment
      • Modify a comment
      • Delete a comment
      • Display changes or comments by type or reviewer
      • See the date or reviewer name for a tracked change or comment
      • Show or hide comments or tracked changes
      • Change the way tracked changes and comments look
      • Add or remove document protection for comments and tracked changes
      • Print a document with tracked changes and comments showing
      • Print a list of changes made to a document
      • Troubleshoot comments, tracked changes, and compared and merged documents
    • Comparing and Merging Documents
      • About comparing and merging documents
      • Compare and merge documents
      • Merge comments and changes from several reviewers into one document
      • Compare documents with the Legal blackline option
    • Information Rights Management
      • About Information Rights Management
      • Create content with restricted permission
      • View content with restricted permission
      • Troubleshoot content with restricted permission
    • Document Protection
      • Protect a document from unauthorized changes
      • Allow editing in a protected document
      • Remove restricted permission from content
      • Restrict formatting of a document
      • Add or remove document protection for comments and tracked changes
    • Sending for Review
      • About sending a file for review
      • Respond to a review request
      • End a review cycle
      • Troubleshoot sending a file for review
    • Fax Services
      • About fax services
      • Send a fax
    • Preserve Document Appearance
      • About preserving a document's original appearance
      • Turn on or off features introduced in recent versions of Word
      • Preserve original appearance for viewing or printing
      • Results of saving Word 2003 documents in other file formats
    • Working with People Using Different Versions of Word
      • Strategies for sharing documents with different versions of Word
    • Using Forms
      • About printed forms and forms for use in Word
      • Office programs you can use to create an online or printed form
      • Create forms that users complete in Word
      • Create a printed form
      • Add form fields to a form
      • Types of text form fields
      • Add, remove, or change the order of items in a drop-down list
      • Add Help text to a form
      • Change the text formatting of a form
      • Set or edit form field properties
      • Print the data from a form in Word
      • Save form data for use in a database or spreadsheet
      • Show or hide shading in forms
      • Automate your form
      • Protect a form
      • Remove protection from a form
      • ActiveX controls you can use on a form
      • Add ActiveX controls to a form
      • Change properties in an ActiveX control
      • Register a new ActiveX control
      • About Web forms
      • Create a Web form
      • Form controls you can use on a Web page
      • Modify the properties of a Web form control
      • Troubleshoot forms
    • Online Meetings
      • About online meetings
      • Start an unscheduled online meeting
      • Accept a request for an online meeting
      • Schedule an online meeting
      • View a list of participants in an online meeting
      • Add a participant to an online meeting
      • Remove a participant from an online meeting
      • Open Chat in an online meeting
      • Change a file in an online meeting
      • End an online meeting
      • Send a file to participants in an online meeting
      • Troubleshoot online meetings
      • Open the Whiteboard in an online meeting
    • Shared Workspaces
      • About Document Workspaces
      • About shared workspaces
      • Create a Document Workspace
      • Delete a Document Workspace
      • Keep a Document Workspace document up to date
      • Stop being prompted to get updates for a document
      • Troubleshoot shared workspaces
    • Web Discussions
      • Get help about Web Discussions
      • About Web Discussions
      • About system requirements for discussions and subscriptions
      • Select a discussion server
      • Print discussions
      • Reply to, edit, or delete a discussion comment
      • Close a discussion
      • Permissions for discussions and subscriptions
      • Filter discussions
    • Subscriptions
      • About receiving notification of changes to a file or discussion
      • Subscribe to be notified of changes to a file or discussion
      • Cancel subscription to a file or discussion
  • With Other Programs
    • Working with Microsoft Access
      • Insert data from Access or other data source
      • Import a Word text file into Access
      • More about Office data connection and data retrieval service connection files
      • More about data sources
    • Working with Microsoft Excel
      • Use Microsoft Query to retrieve data from an external data source
    • Working with Microsoft PowerPoint
      • Create a PowerPoint presentation from a Word outline
    • Sending E-Mail Messages and Documents
      • Troubleshoot sending e-mail messages and documents
      • Working with Microsoft Outlook
        • About using Word as your e-mail editor
        • Create or modify e-mail signatures
        • Turn Word on or off as your e-mail editor or viewer
        • Change the default font for e-mail messages
        • Delete or stop using e-mail signatures
        • Reduce e-mail message size by filtering HTML
        • About plain text messages
        • About Cc and Bcc
        • Show or hide the Bcc field
        • Show or hide the From box in a message
        • Add voting buttons to a message
        • Use voting buttons
        • About tracking when messages are delivered or read
        • Receive notifications when messages are delivered or read
        • About automatically checking recipient names before sending a message
        • Turn off automatic name checking and completion
      • Sending Documents by E-Mail
        • Send a document in e-mail
        • Post a file to an Exchange folder
    • Using Word and WordPerfect
      • Using WordPerfect and Word
    • Linking Objects and Embedding Objects
      • About inserting information by creating a linked object or an embedded object
      • Insert information by creating a linked object or embedded object
      • Edit a linked object or an embedded object
      • Change the appearance of a linked object or embedded object
      • Control how linked objects are updated
      • Reconnect a linked object
      • Update linked objects when you print a document
      • Troubleshoot linked objects and embedded objects
      • Convert an embedded object to a file of another source program
      • Equations
        • Insert an equation
        • Edit an equation
        • Troubleshoot Equation Editor
• Automating Tasks and Programmability
  • Smart Tags
    • About smart tags
    • Use smart tags
    • Change smart tag options
    • Check for new smart tags
    • Remove smart tags
    • Troubleshoot smart tags
  • Smart Documents
    • About smart documents
    • Add or delete a smart document XML expansion pack
    • Change the XML expansion pack attached to a smart document
  • Macros
    • About macros
    • Create a macro
    • Create a macro to automatically display ASK fields
    • Delete macros
    • Edit a macro
    • Pause and restart recording a macro
    • Run a macro
    • Rename macros
    • Copy macros to another document or template
    • Troubleshoot recording and running macros
  • Field Types and Switches
    • Using Fields
      • About fields
      • Change a field result to regular text
      • Display a list of AutoText entries
      • Keep
      • Edit a field
      • Format field results
      • Insert a field
      • Insert a bookmark field
      • Lock or unlock a field
      • Create a dictionary-style page header
      • Switch between field codes and results
      • Update fields to show the latest results
      • Change shaded background of fields
      • Troubleshoot fields
    • Field Reference
      • Fields for use with forms
      • Embedding PostScript printer commands in a Word document
      • Examples of IF fields
      • Field Code - A
        • Field codes: AddressBlock field
        • Field codes: Advance field
        • Field codes: Ask field
        • Field codes: Author field
        • Field codes: AutoNum field
        • Field codes: AutoNumLgl field
        • Field codes: AutoNumOut field
        • Field codes: AutoText field
        • Field codes: AutoTextList field
      • Field Code - B-E
        • Field codes: BarCode field
        • Field codes: Comments field
        • Field codes: Compare field
        • Field codes: CreateDate field
        • Field codes: Database field
        • Field codes: Date field
        • Field codes: DocProperty field
        • Field codes: DocVariable field
        • Field codes: EditTime field
        • Field codes: Embed field
        • Field codes: Eq (Equation) field
      • Field Code - F-I
        • Field codes: FileName field
        • Field codes: FileSize field
        • Field codes: Fill-in field
        • Field codes: GoToButton field
        • Field codes: GreetingLine field
        • Field codes: Hyperlink field
        • Field codes: If field
        • Field codes: IncludePicture field
        • Field codes: IncludeText field
        • Field codes: Index field
        • Field codes: Info field
      • Field Code - K-M
        • Field codes: Keywords field
        • Field codes: LastSavedBy field
        • Field codes: Link field
        • Field codes: ListNum field
        • Field codes: MacroButton field
        • Field codes: MergeField field
        • Field codes: MergeRec field
        • Field codes: MergeSeq field
      • Field Code - N-Q
        • Field codes: Next field
        • Field codes: NextIf field
        • Field codes: NoteRef field
        • Field codes: NumChars field
        • Field codes: NumPages field
        • Field codes: NumWords field
        • Field codes: Page field
        • Field codes: PageRef field
        • Field codes: Print field
        • Field codes: PrintDate field
        • Field codes: Private field
        • Field codes: Quote field
      • Field Code - R-S
        • Field codes: RD (Referenced Document) field
        • Field codes: Ref field
        • Field codes: RevNum field
        • Field codes: SaveDate field
        • Field codes: Section field
        • Field codes: SectionPages field
        • Field codes: Seq (Sequence) field
        • Field codes: Set field
        • Field codes: SkipIf field
        • Field codes: StyleRef field
        • Field codes: Subject field
        • Field codes: Symbol field
      • Field Code - T-X
        • Field codes: TA (Table of Authorities Entry) field
        • Field codes: TC (Table of Contents Entry) field
        • Field codes: Template field
        • Field codes: Time field
        • Field codes: Title field
        • Field codes: TOA (Table of Authorities) field
        • Field codes: TOC (Table of Contents) field
        • Field codes: UserAddress field
        • Field codes: UserInitials field
        • Field codes: UserName field
        • Field codes: XE (Index Entry) field
      • Switches
        • Date-Time Picture (\@) field switch
        • Field codes: = (Formula) field
        • Format (\*) field switch
        • Format switches for text comparisons by IF fields
        • Lock Result (\!) field switch
        • Numeric Picture (\#) field switch
• Language-Specific Features
  • Language Setup
    • About Microsoft Proofing Tools
    • About the global interface and Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack
    • About multilingual features in Office
    • Change the language format of text
    • Install system support for multiple languages
    • Requirements for specific languages
    • Locale identification numbers for language-specific files
    • Remove commands and controls for languages you don't use
    • Change the default country/region
    • Enable editing of multiple languages
    • Change the default language setting
    • Use a keyboard layout for a specific language
    • Troubleshoot multilingual text
    • Change the language of the user interface or Help in Office programs
    • Encoded Text Files and Unicode
      • Install the universal font for Unicode
      • About encoded text files
      • Encoding standards for opening and saving files
      • Automatically correct the encoding of Chinese and Korean text
      • Save a file as encoded text
      • Type Unicode characters by using the keyboard
      • Troubleshoot encoded text files
    • Automatic Language Detection
      • About automatic font switching
      • About automatic language detection
      • Automatically detect languages
      • Automatically switch keyboard languages
      • Languages Word can detect automatically
      • Troubleshoot automatic language detection
  • East Asian
    • Word features for East Asian languages
    • Adjust line breaks for East Asian text
    • Add phonetic guides to text
    • Apply borders, shading, or scaling to East Asian characters
    • Change vertical text to horizontal in a vertical East Asian document
    • Reconvert Japanese, Traditional Chinese, or Simplified Chinese text
    • Combine East Asian characters
    • Compress two lines in one for East Asian text
    • Insert vertical text in a horizontal East Asian document
    • Set characters and lines per page for East Asian text
    • Set wordwrap for Latin words in East Asian text
    • Review a file by using Reconversion
    • Input Method Editors (IMEs)
      • About Input Method Editors (IMEs)
      • About Microsoft Natural Input
      • Install an Input Method Editor (IME)
      • Add a word to an Input Method Editor (IME) dictionary
      • Set the default Input Method Editor (IME)
    • Simplified Chinese
      • About creating a Simplified Chinese document
      • Add words to a Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese custom dictionary
      • Convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese and vice versa
      • Sort Simplified or Traditional Chinese text
    • Traditional Chinese
      • About creating a Traditional Chinese document
      • Add words to a Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese custom dictionary
      • Convert Traditional Chinese to Simplified Chinese and vice versa
      • Sort Simplified or Traditional Chinese text
    • Japanese
      • About creating a Japanese document
      • Work in Japanese Genko mode
      • Use the Japanese Consistency Checker
      • Add greetings, openings, and closings to Japanese letters or memos
      • Add emphasis marks to Japanese characters
      • Switch between hiragana and katakana in Japanese text
      • Switch between half-width and full-width Japanese characters
      • Adjust character spacing between Japanese and Latin text or numbers
      • Search Japanese text
      • Japanese Input Method Editor options
      • Register words in a Japanese Input Method Editor dictionary
      • Using the Extended Formatting toolbar to work with Japanese text
    • Korean
      • About creating a Korean document
      • Set Korean spelling options
      • Add or delete Hanja in a custom dictionary
      • Convert Hangul to Hanja
      • Convert Hanja to Hangul
      • Set Hangul and Hanja conversion options
      • Look up Hanja in the Hanja dictionary
  • South Asian
    • About code page and text layout support for South Asian Web pages
    • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
    • About macros in South Asian documents
    • Check the correct sequence of South Asian text
    • Find and replace special South Asian characters
    • Select diacritics or ligated characters
    • Replace invalid South Asian characters automatically
    • Keyboard shortcuts for South Asian formatting
    • Specify how dates and numbers appear in South Asian documents
    • Specify South Asian font characteristics
    • Delete diacritics, ligatures, and special marks in South Asian text
    • Word features for South Asian languages
    • Use diacritics
    • Thai
      • About creating a Thai document
      • Justify Thai text
    • Vietnamese
      • About creating a Vietnamese document
  • Indic
    • Convert Indic language text files from Unicode to ISCII
    • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
    • Convert Indic language text files from ISCII to Unicode
    • About creating an Indic language document
    • Word features for Indic languages
    • About code page and text layout support for Indic language Web pages
    • Specify Indic language font characteristics
    • Specify how dates and numbers appear in Indic language documents
    • Check the correct sequence of Indic language text
    • Replace invalid Indic language characters automatically
  • Right-to-Left
    • About finding and replacing characters in Indic, South Asian, or right-to-left languages
    • Word features for right-to-left languages
    • About creating a Farsi, Urdu, or other right-to-left document
    • Keyboard shortcuts for right-to-left formatting
    • Create or modify a style for right-to-left text
    • Change paragraph direction
    • Select diacritics or ligated characters
    • Specify spelling options for right-to-left languages
    • Use control characters for right-to-left text
    • Use tables in right-to-left documents
    • Specify how numbers and dates appear in right-to-left documents
    • Set the gutter location for right-to-left documents
    • Set insertion point behavior for right-to-left text
    • Find and replace special right-to-left characters
    • Insert a right-to-left or left-to-right mark
    • Specify the direction of sections in right-to-left documents
    • Specify the view direction for the entire document
    • Use diacritics
    • Use complex fonts
    • Arabic
      • About creating an Arabic document
      • Specify kashida length in Arabic text
    • Hebrew
      • About creating a Hebrew document
      • Add double quotes to Hebrew number formats
  • European
    • About creating a European language document
    • Word features for European languages
    • Enforce accented uppercase characters
    • Turn on or off new German spelling rules
    • Georgian and Armenian
      • About creating a Georgian or Armenian document

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