Generally speaking, unless you have more than one paragraph of text in a
cell, you should not see paragraph marks ("carriage returns") at all. You
should see only the end-of-cell marker. I suspect that what you're seeing
is that someone has pressed Enter at the end of the cell content in a row
with an Exact height specified. The additional content (which we will hope
is merely an empty paragraph) is hidden below the bottom of the cell.
Usually, placing the insertion point before the paragraph mark and pressing
Delete will remove the unwanted and unnecessary paragraph break and restore
the (single, we hope) paragraph to its default condition as the only
paragraph in the cell, ending with the end-of-cell marker, and you won't see
the gray lines any more.
If there is still a gray line, you may see yet another paragraph mark, in
which case you can delete it, again hoping that there is not actual content
below it, just an empty paragraph. Continue until there is no more overflow
content.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
"Kevin Scott" wrote in message
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I have a Word document that has faint gray lines displayed in the table
cells
where carriage returns exist. They are there no matter the viewing format
(web layout, print layout, etc.). They show up whenever you try to view
this
particular document (someone else created the original) and interfere with
the text if viewed on a projector and they also show up when printed out.
How can I turn off these gray lines? I have searched through many menus
and
options but I have not been successful so far.
Any ideas on what these are?