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OpenOffice used to show tables where the borders had been set to invisible in light shade of grey. When the document was printed, the borders would not be present but being able to see the positions of the borders was useful to see where table started and finished and where the rows and columns were for dragging or whatever. With MS Word the invisible tables are difficult to work with. Is there a way I can make it so I can see the invisible tables when working with them but they will be invisible when printed?




MS Word sort of does this with text boxes when captions are made for images with text wrapping. In that situation, Word puts a dashed line around the box while the box is selected and the dashed line disappears when the box is deselected.
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If you have no borders set and you choose the option to View Gridlines (Context sensitive Table Layout tab), you will see the gridlines on screen but not on the printed copy.
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If you have no borders set and you choose the option to View Gridlines (Context sensitive Table Layout tab), you will see the gridlines on screen but not on the printed copy.

That's perfect; thanks!
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This worked great at home but on a university computer with the same version of MS Word, the table doesn't show up and instead I get gridlines all over every page. Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: never mind; I found it in the layout tab of the table menu on the ribbon which I see is what you said in parantheses.

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