[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful, but the gray shading was just really
intractable and mysterious.

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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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Hello Suzanne,
Again, thanks for your insight on this issue. We will just re-do the
document to clear out the mess.
Thanks,
Kevin

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

A picture would not be helpful, but if you want to send a sample of the
problem table to my email, I'll take a look.

--
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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Hello Suzanne,
I already tried to use "no fill" on the cell AND the table but to no
avail.
If you like, I can send you a screenshot direct from my Outlook email
but
I
cannot in this posting format.

Let me know if that is OK. A picture is worth 1000 words.
Regards,
Kevin



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Oh, shoot, I just reread your post and see you said *vertical* lines.
Could
this mean that the paragraph has a negative right indent?

Another avenue to explore might be shading applied to the
paragraph/cell.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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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.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Kevin Scott" wrote in
message
...
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?