[Terry Farrell]

There are 2 separate settings that affect the view of gridlines. There's the
obvious Table, View or Hide Gridlines. But also under Tools, Options, View
Tabs, there is a setting to show Text Boundaries. This also includes table
gridlines. Personally, I always have Text Boundaries displayed, so I will
always see table gridlines.

The only way you can control this is to add an AutoOpen macro that toggles
off both settings when the document is opened. However, I for one would be
very annoyed if my preference to work showing boundaries was forced off and
would probably refuse to read documents from that source again. then I'm a
maverick.

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Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Markus Ernst" wrote in message
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Hi

I make some forms, in which some elements are layed out with tables. I
save the template with "Table / Show gridlines" turned off - anyway when
the document is opened, the gridlines are visible again.

Can I set gridlines turned off in the document by default? (Word 2002) Or,
as a workaround, is there an option where the users of the templates can
set this as a default for their Words?

Thanks
Markus