On 05/03/2016 08:53 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 21:42 03/05/2016 -0400, John Caruso wrote:
I have given up on OO because I could not get grid lines in Calc
4.1.2, I found an old copy of office10 and installed it and now I get
grid lines in Excel with no problem
I'm not sure what you mean by "office10": is that version 10.0 of
Microsoft Office, i.e. Microsoft Office XP? Or perhaps you mean
Microsoft Office 2010? But no matter.
I'm always amused when people write to the Users list to say that
cannot use the product. It is perhaps understandable that you should
find some difficulty or other, but choosing to advertise to thousands
of generally satisfied users that you are unable to make the product
do what you need seems somewhat weird.
Grid lines show by default in Open Office spreadsheets, so readers
will wonder what you are doing wrong. If they don't show, you can
restore them at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice Calc | View | Visual
aids | Grid lines. If you see new documents as not displaying the
grid. you must be using a template - perhaps even a default template -
which has display of the grid disabled.
Note that the purpose of the grid is to guide the eye in the editing
window: it does not appear in the printed output as it is not intended
for that purpose. If you want spreadsheet cells to be outlined in the
printed output, you need to format your cells to have *borders*. You
can do this very flexibly on the Borders tab of the Format Cells
dialogue (or using the Borders button in the Formatting toolbar). In
general, you will want to be very selective about which cells have
which arrangement of borders set to what style and colour. But it is
possible to mimic the grid (if that is what you need) by setting
similar borders to all cells: simply select all cells before you do
this, using Edit | Select All (or Ctrl+A) or by clicking the rectangle
at the top left, where the row and column headers meet.
Incidentally, you have again hijacked an existing thread by creating
your message as a reply to it when it was nothing of the sort (and
without even changing the Subject header). As I mentioned before, this
is not only discourteous to others but is also unhelpful to you: your
message will be buried in the existing thread and may well not be seen
by anyone not interested in the earlier topic.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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Brian,
You forgot the file global print grid option:
Format | Page | Sheet and check the Print | Grid box
That will print the grid on all rows that contain data. That is, it
will stop on the last row and column without any data. I use it all the
time when I want the grid printed, which is more often than not. When I
need more empty gridded cells on the page, I insert a period "." in a
cell in the last row I want the grid on. That is not very noticeable
when printed and it does the job.
HTH
Girvin Herr
