remove gridlines in Numbers

In the latest Numbers, select the cell or cells to be cleared, then go to the brush icon in the top right, select Border Outline, scroll to the bottom & select Default style.

All the grid lines in that selected block; already present or added; will

be deleted.

Is expecting to find "the same" in a different application a reasonable expectation?

Click on any cell.

Press command-A to Select All.

Locate this set of buttons on the Format bar:

Click and hold on the pop-up menu showing "Thin"

Choose "None"

Grid lines will still show when the table is active (ie. when you have selected any cell on the table), but will disappear when the table is not active, and will not print.

Regards,

Barry

Hi Will,

That's not the behaviour I'm getting. Here's a screen shot, taken while Show Print view was in effect. The table on the right is a duplicate of the one on the left. Except for being selected, and having different names, the tables are identical.

Note that the light grey fill of the header row and header column is visible in both, as is the darker grey fill I applied to two cells in the original table before duplicating.

Preparing these, I did notice one missing instruction in my previous post; Removing the cell borders requires a two pass process:

Select the block of cells (or the whole table)

Pass 1

• click the border selection button (left of the one showing "thin" in the post above) and choose Outside Edges.
• Click the line style button ("thin") and select 'none'

Pass 2

• click the border selection button (left of the one showing "thin" in the post above) and choose Inside Borders.
• Click the line style button ("thin") and select 'none' (even if it already shows this).

Click away from the table to deselect it and view the results.

Regards,

Barry

OA,

The editing grid can be sticky at times. What you need to do, I have found, is to jog the view a bit to get rid of that set of lines. An easy way to do this is to click the Print View / Sheet View icon in the lower left corner of the Numbers window. Clicking it twice will get you back to where you started. It seems that forcing a redraw of the table will refresh it's line status if you are having this problem.

Jerry

All these years to get it right, and we still have to jiggle the handle sometimes. 😝

Barry

Office to Apple wrote:

Got it, thanks Jerrold.

Another way, quite simple, to eliminate every border line in a Table, is to click the Table Name in the Sheets Pane, and then set Stroke to None in the Graphics Inspector. (Then jiggle the handle, if necessary.)

Jerry

Professor Barry,

Sorry, didn't notice the grammatical error in my earlier post until the edit window had timed out. 😐

Jerry

Hi Jerry,

Hadn't even noticed that until I reread your message. I was referring to having 'to jog the view a bit'.

Barry

The new Numbers fixes this. Just select your cells, click on "Table" tab on the inspector bar, then under Gridlines pick whichever ones you want.

THANK YOU APPLE!!!

PM,

I think you mean Cell Borders, not Grid Lines. Right?

I like the change too.

Jerry

Heya Jerry,

I'm not sure of the distinction you're making.

I see Cell Borders as the visual outlines you can change, i.e. the thickness of around each cell for printing and display, where as Gridlines are the light gray background cell outlines which appear by default. The new numbers tool allows you to change both the borders and the gridlines, (even quicker than you can do so in Excel, which is awesome).

The distinction is that Gridlines don't Print, Cell Borders do.

If you want to print a clean table without a grid, but still have the grid to assist navigation during table editing, turn the Gridlines on and the Borders off.

Jerry