Show Or Hide Gridlines In Word, PowerPoint, Or Excel

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Gridlines help give you visual cues when you're formatting in Office. You can align shapes and other objects in your PowerPoint slides and Word documents, and distinguish between cell boundaries in and sections of your spreadsheets and workbooks in Excel.

Note: This article doesn't apply to PowerPoint for the web or Word for the web.

In Word and PowerPoint, gridlines are for visual reference only and cannot be printed. If you want to print gridlines in Excel, see Print gridlines in a worksheet.

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

To hide the gridlines, clear the Gridlines check box.

More about tools that help you align and place text and objects:

• Snap charts, pictures, and objects to a grid to align them in Word

• Work with gridlines and use snap-to-grid in PowerPoint

• Turn the snap to grid and snap to object options on or off in Excel

• Print gridlines in a worksheet

• Show or hide the ruler in PowerPoint

• Show or hide rulers in Word

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