Show or hide gridlines in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel
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.
Show or hide gridlines on a worksheet - Microsoft Support
Gridlines are the faint lines that appear around cells to distinguish them on the worksheet. By default, gridlines are displayed in worksheets using a color that is assigned by Excel. Gridlines are always applied to the whole worksheet or workbook, …
Display or hide chart gridlines - Microsoft Support
Add or format gridlines. To make the data in a chart easier to read, you can display horizontal and vertical chart gridlines that extend across the plot area of the chart. You can also display depth gridlines in 3-D charts.
Show or hide gridlines in Word, PowerPoint, or Excel
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.
Turn the snap to grid and snap to object options on or off in Excel
When you draw, resize, or move a shape or other object in Excel, you can set it so that it will align or "snap” to the nearest intersection in the grid (even if the grid is not visible) or snap to other shapes or objects.
Print gridlines in a worksheet - Microsoft Support
By default, gridlines don't appear on a printed Microsoft Excel worksheet or workbook. This article describes how you can make the gridlines appear in your printed worksheets. Select the worksheet or worksheets that you want to print.
Change the color of gridlines in a worksheet - Microsoft Support
Click File > Excel > Options. In the Advanced category, under Display options for this worksheet, make sure that the Show gridlines check box is selected. In the Gridline color box, click the color you want. Tip: To return gridlines to the default color, click Automatic.
Change the color, style, or weight of a line - Microsoft Support
Add a Quick Style to a line. Quick Styles for lines include theme colors from the document theme, shadows, line styles, gradients, and three-dimensional (3-D) perspectives. When you position your pointer over a Quick Style thumbnail, you can see how the style affects your line.
Align or arrange objects - Microsoft Support
To more easily align objects, you can snap your objects to a grid line that runs through the vertical edges, horizontal edges, and centers of other objects. The line becomes visible only when you drag an object near another object.
Change the width of cell borders - Microsoft Support
Microsoft Excel applies a default thin line style when you add an outer cell border or gridlines. To change the width of a cell border, follow these steps: Select one or more cells that have a border that you want to change.
Apply or remove cell borders on a worksheet - Microsoft Support
If you do not use cell borders but want worksheet gridline borders to be visible on printed pages, you can display the gridlines. For more information, see Print with or without cell gridlines.