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Hi everyone

I am a newbie here and look forward to gaining some knowledge ..

I was trying to create some pages with columns and suddenly my pages were covered in a `mini` grid of tiny squares - I dont know if this has activated a default as the grid now appear on all my documents.
I am just learning MW so forgive my lack of knowledge.

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I'm not sure how you turned it on -- there are probably several ways
to do it -- but here's a way to turn it off. (Assuming you have a
recent version of Word with a Ribbon.)

On the Page Layout tab, click on the tiny arrow at the lower right of
the Page Setup group. Go to the Document Grid tab. At the bottom is a
button for Drawing Grid. That opens a panel with a checkbox for
"Display Gridlines on Screen" -- uncheck that.

(There's probably a much easier way to turn it on and off, but that's
also the place where you'd change its size etc.)

On Feb 7, 8:09*am, hellis wrote:
Hi everyone

I am a newbie here and look forward to gaining some knowledge ..

I was trying to create some pages with columns and suddenly my pages
were covered in a `mini` grid of tiny squares - I dont know if this has
activated a default as the grid now appear on all my documents.
I am just learning MW so forgive my lack of knowledge.

Thanks.

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hellis


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Hi everyone

I am a newbie here and look forward to gaining some knowledge ..

I was trying to create some pages with columns and suddenly my pages were covered in a `mini` grid of tiny squares - I dont know if this has activated a default as the grid now appear on all my documents.
I am just learning MW so forgive my lack of knowledge.

Thanks.

Hi
After a lot of trial and error I found the problem - I clicked on view and un-ticked `gridlines` - problem solved. I have no idea how I added them in the first place.
Thanks anyway.
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I'm not sure how you turned it on -- there are probably several ways
to do it -- but here's a way to turn it off. (Assuming you have a
recent version of Word with a Ribbon.)

On the Page Layout tab, click on the tiny arrow at the lower right of
the Page Setup group. Go to the Document Grid tab. At the bottom is a
button for Drawing Grid. That opens a panel with a checkbox for
"Display Gridlines on Screen" -- uncheck that.

(There's probably a much easier way to turn it on and off, but that's
also the place where you'd change its size etc.)



On Feb 7, 8:09*am, hellis wrote:
Hi everyone

I am a newbie here and look forward to gaining some knowledge ..

I was trying to create some pages with columns and suddenly my pages
were covered in a `mini` grid of tiny squares - I dont know if this has
activated a default as the grid now appear on all my documents.
I am just learning MW so forgive my lack of knowledge.

Thanks.

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hellis
Hi Peter

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my problem, I did resolve this by trial and error more or less as you suggest.

Thank you very much.

Henry
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