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I see Cell Borders as the visual outlines you can change, i.e.
User profile for user: A gridline just allows you to figure out when creating the spreadsheet where each cell starts and ends.Attempt a printer nozzle check/cleaning though Print & Fax in System Preferences? User profile for user: User profile for user: The new numbers tool allows you to change both the borders and the gridlines, (even quicker than you can do so in Excel, which is awesome).
In response to Barry First AskMe because I'm at my wit's end trying to figure out how to get the gridlines and shading to print on the tables I spent 2 hours making today. Uncheck it. In response to Office to Apple It could be that your printer is failing to print the lines because they're too fine for the nozzles to produce.
(48,575 points) pmorganiii If the latter, make sure OS X is printing in grayscale mode.Can you just add a cell border? What you need to do, I have found, is to jog the view a bit to get rid of that set of lines. Ask MetaFilter is where thousands of life's little questions are answered.They do show up when I print to PDF but they don't actually print if I print from Preview either. If the cells have no fill, gridlines will be visible. when you have selected any cell on the table), but will disappear when the table is not active, and will not print.The editing grid can be sticky at times. The distinction is that Gridlines don't Print, Cell Borders do.If you want to print a clean table without a grid, but still have the grid to assist navigation during table editing, turn the Gridlines on and the Borders off. Jerrold Green1 Print view still shows gridlines, even though they are not actual cell borders - is there a way to have no gridlines appear in printview so I can see if there are any actual borders in the document? Show / hide gridlines in Excel by changing the fill color. In Excel, you click on Options and uncheck the gridlines checkbox. How to get gridlines to print in Numbers June 27, 2010 5:50 PM Subscribe. Feb 15, 2012 12:30 PM The new Numbers fixes this.
User profile for user: Feb 15, 2012 11:30 AM Oct 27, 2013 6:18 AM Oct 27, 2013 5:52 AM in response to Jerrold Green1 In response to Office to Apple User profile for user:
Feb 15, 2012 10:54 AM in response to Barry
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If I wanted to see lines, I'd add a cell border.
In response to pmorganiii The editing grid can be sticky at times. In response to Office to Apple
Barry In response to Office to Apple You could also try increasing the border line weight (make the borders thicker). Jerrold Green1 In the latest Numbers, select the cell or cells to be cleared, then go to the brush icon in the top right, select Border Outline, scroll to the bottom & select Default style.All the grid lines in that selected block; already present or added; will
the thickness of around each cell for printing and display, where as Gridlines are the light gray background cell outlines which appear by default.
If you’re looking to present your data in printed form, you don’t really need to worry about gridlines, because these don’t appear in print, while cell borders do.
User profile for user: Clicking it twice will get you back to where you started. User profile for user: In Numbers, I can't find the same. Feb 15, 2012 12:29 PM
An easy way to do this is to click the Print View / Sheet View icon in the lower left corner of the Numbers window. Feb 15, 2012 12:23 PM Barry Except for being selected, and having different names, the tables are identical.Note that the light grey fill of the header row and header column is visible in both, as is the darker grey fill I applied to two cells in the original table before duplicating.Preparing these, I did notice one missing instruction in my previous post; Removing the cell borders requires a two pass process:Click away from the table to deselect it and view the results.
(Then jiggle the handle, if necessary.)
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