When you hear the word “gridlines” in relation to a Microsoft Office product, it’s likely that you will associate it with Microsoft Excel. That application displays gridlines on the screen by default, and can even be printed to make the spreadsheet data easier to read on paper.
But it’s possible to have gridlines in Microsoft Word, too. Some people like to use gridlines in Word as a way to more easily position document objects, and those gridlines might be displayed on a document that you receive from someone else. Fortunately you are able to remove those gridlines from view by changing a document setting if you find the gridlines to be distracting or troublesome.
Jun 14, 2019 When you are copying and pasting text from the internet into Microsoft Word, you will probably get a document with many hyperlinks in it. Some of them may be important for you, but most of them need to be removed. If you are editing Word documents on your Mac, and you have to remove some hyperlinks from it, here is how to do that. Remove Metadata From Mac Word. Effective with Office 365 for Mac there is no longer an option to remove metadata; the instructions below do not apply. By default Mac Word should be removing personal information on save. To confirm follow the below steps: Click on Word and then Preferences.
How to Hide Gridlines in Microsoft Word
The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Word for Office 365, but will work in some older versions of Word.
Step 1: Open the document with the gridlines in Microsoft Word.
Step 2: Click the View tab at the top of the window.
Step 3: Click the box to the left of Gridlines to remove the check mark.
Removing Microsoft Word From Mac Os
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