Printing Gridlines

John,

Numbers, like the other iWork apps, is a What You See Is What You Get app. You don't turn onything on or off just for printing. If you want to print gridlines, you've got to be seeing them on your display prior to printing. Gridlines are called Borders in Numbers Tables. See Formatting Table Cell Borders on page 87 of the Numbers User Guide.

Jerry

Adding to Jerry's post:

You'll want to make selections from each of the 4 items in the tool bar:

1) selects which borders

2) selects the border type

3) selects the weight

4) select the border color

John,

When the table is activly being edited, there are some faint lines to help you navigate. That's an exception to the rule I stated. However, when you click off the table, you see what you will get when you print.

There's a simple and quick way to add lines to all your cells:

1. Click the table name in the Sheets Pane

2. Go to the Graphics Inspector and set the Storke line type, weight and color.

Your graphics stroke settings will apply to all the borders in the table at once.

Jerry

John,

Are you still having trouble with this topic?

John,

Once you get a table in a sheet set up the way you like you can use the menu item "File > Save As Template…" so you can start with that document.