Hide Grid Lines [Quick Tip]

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I like to hide grid lines on my spreadsheets and charts whenever possible. I think removing gridlines makes the charts and worksheets more presentable. In case you are wondering how to remove (or hide) gridlines,
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To hide grid lines on an excel worksheet:

Excel 2007 and greater: Go to View Ribbon and uncheck the “Gridlines” option. You can also press ALT + WVG

Excel 2003 and earlier: Click on Tools > Options and then in the View tab uncheck “grid lines” option.

To hide grid lines when you are printing an excel sheet:

Excel 2007 and greater: Go to Page Layout Ribbon and uncheck the “Print” option under Gridlines area. You can also press ALT + PPGremove-gridlines-charts-excel

Excel 2003 and earlier: Go to “Print Preview” and uncheck “gridlines” in “Print” tab.

To Remove grid lines from a chart:

Select the gridlines in the chart and hit delete.

What do you think about gridlines ?

Do you like them or do you try to remove then whenever you can?

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One Response to “How to compare two Excel sheets using VLOOKUP? [FREE Template]”

  1. Danny says:

    Maybe I missed it, but this method doesn't include data from James that isn't contained in Sara's data.

    I added a new sheet, and named the ranges for Sara and James.

    Maybe something like:
    B2: =SORT(UNIQUE(VSTACK(SaraCust, JamesCust)))
    C2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,SaraCust,SaraPaid,"Missing")
    D2: =XLOOKUP(B2#,JamesCust, JamesPaid,"Missing")
    E2: =IF(ISERROR(C2#+D2#),"Missing",IF(C2#=D2#,"Yes","No"))

    Then we can still do similar conditional formatting. But this will pull in data missing from Sara's sheet as well.

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