Display the Drawing toolbar and choose Grid from the Drawing menu. Clear the
check box for "Show gridlines on screen."

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"onemulligan" wrote in message
...
when I open Microsoft Word 2003 I get a page that looks like graph paper.
I
deleted the "normal.dot" and restarted but it is still there. It is in
the
Print, Layout, View. If I click in Normal View the lines are not there.
Can
someone help me to get rid of the lines? thank you.