Grid lines in Numbers

Just started using Numbers. The grid lines on my spreadsheets I've created are barely visible. How do I darken the gridlines? I've tried using Inspector in the tool bar, but have had no luck.
Kevin

in the user guide located on the apple support main website, chapter four has a section called "Formatting table cell borders" which explains all the basics.
Jason

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How do I add and or remove grid lines in numbers

How do I add or remove grid lines in numbers.

See this thread:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6546166?q=Numbers%20gridlines
Post back if you still have questions.

Changing spacing in grid lines in Numbers

Does anyone know how to change the grid line spacing in the new Numbers?? The default spacing is much wider and higher than the old, and I can't see any way to change it other than manually reducing each one line by line. I have about 50 lines... that would be way too tedious!!

Hi tipsam,
If you click on the circle in the upper left to choose the entire table you will see 3 object handles. the one at the middle bottom will squeeze your rows when you drag it upwards.
If you have trouble with text not being centered in the cells check out the text inset in Layout.
Ciao,
quinn

Grid lines in numbers, how do you switch them on and off?

I am having trouble getting the grid lines to show in numbers, the format has grid lines highlighted in blue but switching this off or on has no effect on grid lines in the sheet

Hi algebra,
I got an email notification of your reply, but this page has not yet updated. This forum software sometimes is out of sync with the emails.
Numbers 3.2
Click on the 'bullseye' top left of the table to select the whole table
In the format panel on the right of the Numbers window, click on Cell
Border > Line style, Width (I prefer 1pt), Colour (I prefer Black) , border pattern (I prefer to set them all the same, see below)
Regards,
Ian.

Grid Lines for each cell

In EXCEL it was easy to add gridlines (borders around each cell). Is there an easy way to add grid line in Numbers so they will print in the final document?

The *Numbers User Guide* is full of useful infos.
Just an example :
We may also do that with *Inspector > Table* .
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 10 décembre 2009 19:32:59

How to print a report without row numbers or grid lines?

Is there a way to print a Discoverer report without row numbers or grid lines?
Thank you.
Blake

Hi Blake
You're not doing anything wrong.
The settings made when you use Tools | Options | Sheet are global settings that are only applied to new workbooks and worksheets going forwards. These have no impact on existing worksheets or even the one you currently have open. This is because Discoverer does not know whether your original worksheets were setup in a certain way deliberately as opposed to inheriting the global settings as they were at that time. What this also means, reading between the lines, is that these settings must then be stored within the worksheet itself, and this is exactly what happens.
Thus, to edit an existing worksheet's settings you need to open the worksheet, right-click in the sheet and from the popup select either Format Table or Format Crosstab depending upon the type of worksheet you are working with. After making any necessary changes you will need to save or re-save the workbook in order for those settings to be remembered for the next time.
Best wishes
Michael

How do I get the Grid lines to show on the printed sheet in numbers?

When I print out a page from Numbers the Grid lines do not appear. What do I need to do to correct this?

Add them in using the border formatting tool. select the table:
Then open the formatter:
Now do the following:
1) select the border style
2) select the border weight
3) select the border color
4) select which borders

Numbers spreadsheets show very faint grid lines

Hope someone out there can help with this strange problem. I can only se the grid lines on the numbers basic spreadsheet with great difficulty. It's the same for most other templates expect the brown one which show up fine for some reason! I've recalibrated the Mac to ensure colours are good, but can't find a way in numbers to make the grid lines darker. Can anyone help? It must be a problem for me only as my partner uses this Mac with no problems in his spreadsheets!!!

wellingtonatic wrote:
It must be a problem for me only as my partner uses this Mac with no problems...
Hmm, if that wasn't a typo and you really meant "this Mac" (as you typed), not "his Mac" then I don't know why yours would be different from your partner's unless you or your partner changed border colors/thickness as some point.
You can set the cell border line thickness and color in two places. One is on the toolbar and the other is in the Table inspector . It would probably be easier to understand if you read about it in the User's Manual rather than me trying to give step by step instructions here.

I have been using numbers spreadsheet to do my time card. When I delete the info on my spreadsheet to change the info for the new week the dark grid lines turn to a light gray. How do I make the lines dark again?

I have been using a spreadsheet in numbers to do my time card. When I delete the info on my spreadsheet to change for the new week the dark grid lines turn to a light gray. How do I make the lines dark again?

Change the email on the old account to another new, current email address.
An email address can only be linked to one Apple ID.
It is possible to have content from multiple Apple ID's on a single iDevice.

I have a Mac mini Snow Leopard. In Numbers the grid lines are so faint that they are barely visible. Please could someone help me sort out this problem.

I have a Mac mini Snow Leopard. In Numbers the grid lines are so faint that they are barely visible. Pleease could someone help me sort out this problem?

The User Manual has this:
Formatting Table Cell Borders
You can change the line thickness and color of table cell borders. Or you can hide the border of any cell.
To format table cell borders:
1 Select the cell border segments you want to format.
2 Use the controls in the format bar or in the Table inspector.
Click to choose a stroke color.
Click to choose a stroke style.
Click to choose a line thickness.
Stroke pop-up menu: Lets you choose a stroke style. Choose None to hide borders.
Line thickness: Controls the thickness of the stroke.
Color well: Lets you choose a stroke color.
When you click the color well in the format bar, a color matrix appears. Select a color by clicking it in the matrix, or click Show Colors to open the Colors window for additional color options.
When you click the color well in the Table inspector, the Colors window opens.
User Guide: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/Numbers09_UserGuide.pdf

How can I eliminate grid lines of selected cells when printing, in iOS numbers

How can I eliminate grid lines of selected cells when printing, using iOS numbers

Hi Cmlgfx,
Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
You can style a table to remove grid lines and only show an "outline" around the table itself.
See this article for help with table styles:
Numbers for iOS (iPad): Place and style tables
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH3365
To show or hide the table name, table border, and grid lines, alternate row colors, or adjust fonts, tap Table Options at the bottom of the Table window (you may need to scroll up in the window to see it), and then set your preferences using the options in the Table Options window. (When you’re done, tap at the top of the window to see other options.)
All the best,
Jeremy

When I have a border around a group of cellsand remove it, it also removes the grid lines. When I go to print the sheet, there are blank spaces where the border had been. I'm sing a MacBook.

When I have a border around a group of cell, how do I remove it. If I outline the cells again and then show in the Inspector NO BORDER, it removes not only the borderbut when I go to print it also the grid lines.

What application are you using? Numbers? Excel? Something else?
For help with Numbers spreadsheets go to this forum.
If you are using Excel, Microsoft has a forum to help you.
If it is something else, let us know what and we will try to point you in the right direction.
Best of luck.

Unable to bold a cell verticle line in Cross-tab Format Grid Lines

Hi
I am unable to bold a random Cell vertical line inside the cross-tab. My cross-tab is having access database which pulls every data correctly,
To elaborate , here is the images to make it clear.
First one is the current output of cross-tab & 2nd one is the desired output :
To make it more clear ,
I am giving the screenshot of Format grid lines option, when I have selected Cell vertical lines , I can change Line options (Like style,width,color) from it. When I change it, it changes all three lines simultaneously. But, in that, I just want to bold only the last line of this grid.
The screenshot as follows (To denote the lines, I have put numbering under the vertical lines, where I want to bold only the third one) :
Please let me know, if any solution to this. I m using CRVS_13.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi,
try to do this way..
Right click on crosstab - > crosstab expert -> customize style -> select your particular column then goto Format Grid Lines -> select your particular one based view -> ok..
I hope this not yet possible because select 1 automatically 2,3 vertical lines are selected..
See how it works......Please update ASAP
tHANKS,
dj

Thin grid lines in PDF export

I am using the current version of Numbers (3.2).
The problem I am facing is that it seems to be impossible to export a spreadsheet with invisible grid lines to a PDF. Every time I do so, thin (I guess 1px) grid lines appear in the PDF where the should be none. I attached two images of a simple test sheet: The first picture is Numbers, the second is the resulting PDF export.
Any ideas how to fix this?
Thanks!

1) select the table, then
2) use the cell formatter to set the border type to none
3) apply the border all inside edges

Remove grid lines when printing

I am trying to print a set of financial statements and do not want to see the grid lines when printing the final document. I cannot work out how to do this.
Some posts I have read say that grid lines are described as cell borders and suggest that they can be removed using the inspectors "cell borders " facility.
I have tried to do this but cannot make it happen. If I were to successfully remove the borders/grid lines then surely this would also remove the underlines I have inserted with great effort.
I would really appreciate anyone's help with this

One more time, it's useful to use our brain before stating a task.
If I read well, you used some cell borders as an underline segment.
Now you pay the result of a bad design.
You have no way to remove only borders which aren't "underlining" ones.
Next time think before and use the Underline text attribute so you will be able to remove the grid easily.
I know that some spreadsheets have two structures :
grid
borders
But, those which took time to read the User Guide know that in Numbers there is a single structure :
borders.
So, remove or hide grid means remove or hide borders.
When we work with a tool, we may ask it what it is designed to do, not what we guess it will be able to achieve.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 15 septembre 2010 20:51:51

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