Blue lines

[Guest]

I have blue grid lines around all the Excel worksheets I entered into a Word
document. I can not find how to get rid of them in Word Help (which is no
longer a "help" in Word 2007!)

 

[Graham Mayor]

Table gridlines are controlled from the Table Tools > Borders > view
gridlines or from the Layout Tab > view gridlines.

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[Guest]

This is an Excel worksheet --where are Table Tools?? They don't show up
anywhere when I am trying to get rid of the gridlines in the inserted
worksheet. Word 2007 has so many hidden file menus --most don't show up in
the file tabs unless you click on something else?

 

[Beth Melton]

How did you insert the Excel worksheet? Did you use Copy/Paste or another
method? If another method, what did you use?

Also, in regards to what you referred to as "hidden file menus", these are
called contextual tabs. As you noted, they only display when an object
associated with the tab is selected. For example, if you want to change the
format of an image then you need to have the image selected in order to make
a change. Once the image is selected then the Picture Tools will display.
The concept behind this is you don't end up with tools that can't be used on
the screen, which was often the case in the previous versions.

Now, there are a few commands that I think should be in more than one place,
Table Gridlines is one of them. Since they are something you see on the
screen the View Gridlines command should be on the View tab but that's my
opinion. ;-)

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[Guest]

I used copy & paste-special as an Excel worksheet--I finally just gave up on
finding how to get rid of those stupid blue lines and copied the worksheet
and pasted it as a picture.
I have tried clicking on the item I want to fix--sometimes the other options
to fix show up and sometimes they don't. There should be another way to get
at them.
I've learned a few things since I got Word 2007 a couple months ago--but I
still say it's a lot more awkward to work with than the old version--and that
was a pain in the --- also! Old Word Perfect was much more user-friendly and
easier to do things in, but very few offices use it anymore. Lotus is also
better than Excel for ease of use--but this opens a whole 'nother discussion.

 

[Beth Melton]

Now that I know it's an Excel object for sure, as with previous versions, in
order to change an embedded object you need to use the tools provided by the
object you've embedded. IOW, you need to use Help for the embedded
application - Word is simply a container for the Excel workbook. So to
remove the gridlines from the Excel worksheet you need to double-click the
Excel object to edit it and then once the Excel tools display, on the View
tab, turn off Gridlines.

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assistance by email cannot be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
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[Graham Mayor]

Table tools appear when your cursor is in a table in Word 2007! An Excel
worksheet is a table. The same command is on the layout tab which also
appears when working in a table.

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