Hiding grid lines and changing grid line colors


There are times where gridlines in Excel are useful. They provide a visual guide to differentiate columns, rows and cells.


A
B
C
D
1
Item
Units
Price
Total
2
1752
4
7
28
3
4995
6
1
6
4
4067
8
10
80
5
2392
14
6
84
6
3936
12
4
48
7
1697
5
4
20
8
3651
9
8
72
9
2708
12
9
108
10
3764
1
6
6

However there are times when you don’t want to see them (as in a dashboard).

Well you can remove the gridlines in one of two easy ways.

In the first way, you would change the background color of all the cells to white. First highlight the cells you want to remove the gridlines from then from the Home tab select the fill option of White. This is useful if you only want to remove the gridlines from a section of the worksheet. In this example I have changed the cells D2..D10 white. You will still see gridlines in the other cells.





















The second way is to remove grid lines from the entire worksheet. From the Ribbon, select the View tab, then un-check gridlines.









Finally you can even change the gridline color. First highlight the cells you want to change the gridline color in. Then from the Home tab select the borders drop down arrow and select more borders.

In this example I have selected the cells D2..D10 (just like before).























I choose change the color and Inside. (You need to change the color first). When done I click the OK button.














The result is…


A
B
C
D
1
Item
Units
Price
Total
2
1752
4
7
28
3
4995
6
1
6
4
4067
8
10
80
5
2392
14
6
84
6
3936
12
4
48
7
1697
5
4
20
8
3651
9
8
72
9
2708
12
9
108
10
3764
1
6
6




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