Hide gridlines

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Hide gridlines

Is there any way to hide gridlines from view in Numbers?
I know gridlines don't print unless you give them a thickness but I don't want to print. I want to take a snapshot of my spreadsheet but because the gridlines are visible on the screen I get them in the snapshot. In Excel, you can hide gridlines from view but it appears this can't be done in Numbers?
Anyone?

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Posted on Feb 21, 2011 7:19 PM

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Answer 1

Barry

Level 9

59,861 points

Feb 21, 2011 11:20 PM in response to oogie

How's this:

I've used a green rectangle placed behind the table to make the table more visible.

Select the table. In the Table inspector, use the pop-up menu in the cell borders section to choose the solid line (this is not the "Thin" line set by default), then drag the Opacity slider to 0.

In the Styles list, choose the third table style, Gray.

Change to the Graphic Inspector, and set the Fill to Snow (White).

Regards,
Barry

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Answer 2

oogie Author

Level 1

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Feb 21, 2011 11:35 PM in response to Barry

Thanks for your response but it does not fix my problem.
I have already set different borders for cells and what you suggest removes these.
I want to be able to keep the borders I have created and just turn off the grid lines.
By the way there is a solution had I known Numbers couldn't do this. Had I known at the start, I would have set all grid line visibility to zero and then formatted the cells I wanted.
Great in hindsight but I don't want to start again.
This should be an easy function but obviously not.

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Answer 3

KOENIG Yvan

Level 8

41,807 points

Feb 22, 2011 1:45 AM in response to oogie

As I often wrote, Every user feel that this or that function would be useful.

I know two ways to answer that :

M…soft one:
Catch all requests and insert them in the app which of course become an awful gas factory

Apple one :
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
Apply the 80 Percent Solution
During the design process, if you discover problems with your product design, you might consider applying the 80 percent solution‚ that is, designing your software to meet the needs of at least 80 percent of your users. This type of design typically favors simpler, more elegant approaches to problems.
If you try to design for the 20 percent of your target audience who are power users, your design may not be usable by the other 80 percent of users. Even though that smaller group of power users is likely to have good ideas for features, the majority of your user base may not think in the same way. Involving a broad range of users in your design process can help you find the 80 percent solution.

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Guess which is my preferred one 😉

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 22 février 2011 10:45:44

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