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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines?
Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar.
If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines?
Perhaps it would help if you downloaded the Excel spreadsheet that tells you
where legacy commands are now located (Word command reference.xls). I click on the "Table menu" tab and see that Table | Show Gridlines is at Table Tools | Layout | Table | Show Gridlines. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar. If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines
Sorry if I sound clueless (I am), but where can I download this Excel
spreadsheet? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Perhaps it would help if you downloaded the Excel spreadsheet that tells you where legacy commands are now located (Word command reference.xls). I click on the "Table menu" tab and see that Table | Show Gridlines is at Table Tools | Layout | Table | Show Gridlines. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar. If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines
I was afraid you would ask that. The link has been posted here a few times,
but I haven't paid that much attention since I already had the spreadsheet. g Google helps, however. The online interactive reference guide is at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...744321033.aspx There's another article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH100487431033 that has a link at the bottom to an .xls file that may be the one I have. There's a download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en that may be helpful (but it still requires Internet access to be used). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Sorry if I sound clueless (I am), but where can I download this Excel spreadsheet? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Perhaps it would help if you downloaded the Excel spreadsheet that tells you where legacy commands are now located (Word command reference.xls). I click on the "Table menu" tab and see that Table | Show Gridlines is at Table Tools | Layout | Table | Show Gridlines. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar. If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines
The link to download an Excel workbook with the legacy Office 2003 actions
seems to be this one: http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...1 00625841033 As of now, I can just copy and paste (and "unwrap") this link, and I will get an immediate prompt to download an Excel file. This file is a workbook with a number of tabs: an Introduction, and then each tab after that matches its Office 2003 menu bar entry: File, Edit, ... Is that your toolbar? Can you upload your Excel workbook in some web site you control? Also downloaded the interactive guide, but I prefer a more "passive" content, such as a workbook. Both seem to have the same content. Thanks so much for all your references! Still, I have to say that I hold onto my post. None of these resources go deep enough in the menu to get to the (lack of) gridlines issue. I had quite a few users that think Office 2007 is broken just because of these gridlines. Frankly, I was surprised there was no posting addressing this specific question. But, thanks so much, all in all! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was afraid you would ask that. The link has been posted here a few times, but I haven't paid that much attention since I already had the spreadsheet. g Google helps, however. The online interactive reference guide is at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...744321033.aspx There's another article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH100487431033 that has a link at the bottom to an .xls file that may be the one I have. There's a download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en that may be helpful (but it still requires Internet access to be used). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Sorry if I sound clueless (I am), but where can I download this Excel spreadsheet? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Perhaps it would help if you downloaded the Excel spreadsheet that tells you where legacy commands are now located (Word command reference.xls). I click on the "Table menu" tab and see that Table | Show Gridlines is at Table Tools | Layout | Table | Show Gridlines. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar. If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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Avery Label Templates - Word 2007 - or, where are my gridlines
Yes, that sounds like the one I have. What confused me was that the .xls to
be downloaded was not named "Word command reference.xls." Either MS has changed the name of the file to be downloaded, or I changed it after downloading, and at this point I couldn't tell you which was the case. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... The link to download an Excel workbook with the legacy Office 2003 actions seems to be this one: http://office.microsoft.com/search/r...1 00625841033 As of now, I can just copy and paste (and "unwrap") this link, and I will get an immediate prompt to download an Excel file. This file is a workbook with a number of tabs: an Introduction, and then each tab after that matches its Office 2003 menu bar entry: File, Edit, .... Is that your toolbar? Can you upload your Excel workbook in some web site you control? Also downloaded the interactive guide, but I prefer a more "passive" content, such as a workbook. Both seem to have the same content. Thanks so much for all your references! Still, I have to say that I hold onto my post. None of these resources go deep enough in the menu to get to the (lack of) gridlines issue. I had quite a few users that think Office 2007 is broken just because of these gridlines. Frankly, I was surprised there was no posting addressing this specific question. But, thanks so much, all in all! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I was afraid you would ask that. The link has been posted here a few times, but I haven't paid that much attention since I already had the spreadsheet. g Google helps, however. The online interactive reference guide is at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...744321033.aspx There's another article at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/wo...CH100487431033 that has a link at the bottom to an .xls file that may be the one I have. There's a download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en that may be helpful (but it still requires Internet access to be used). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Sorry if I sound clueless (I am), but where can I download this Excel spreadsheet? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Perhaps it would help if you downloaded the Excel spreadsheet that tells you where legacy commands are now located (Word command reference.xls). I click on the "Table menu" tab and see that Table | Show Gridlines is at Table Tools | Layout | Table | Show Gridlines. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LAMP90" wrote in message ... Applies to templates for preformatted paper or to Avery labels or similar. If you miss being able to see the "boundaries" of where to type text on a template such as for Avery labels, here is what you need to do. Those "boundaries" are called gridlines. To bring them up: + Download and open your template. The only thing you will see is a funny symbol at the top left of your form. That is a Table Anchor. You can play with it later, if you need to. + Look on the ribbon toward the right for a Tab called Layout, and click it. Should be under a, shall we call it meta-tab?, called Table Tools. A "new" ribbon contents should show up. + On the left, in the Table section of this ribbon, there is an item called "View Gridlines". Click it, and your "boundaries" will show up again. Made this note as it took me close to 2 hrs and plenty of detours to find out how to bring out the gridlines again. I was not using the magic word "gridline" on the Help menu. |
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