Light Gray Lines Appear in Print Layout View

[A Baffled User]

I use Word 2000 on my HP Pavilion notebook running Windows XP Home Edition
(512 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive) and on my Dell Dimension 4100 desktop running
Windows Me (also 512 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive).

On the notebook, when I switch from Normal to Print Layout view on a blank
page, a light-gray grid of vertical and horizontal lines appears, creating
half-inch square boxes that fill the entire page except for the margin
areas. When I switch from Normal view to Page Layout view in a document with
two columns, light-gray horizontal lines appear beneath the printed words on
the page, eight of them to the vertical inch. This does not happen on my
desktop, even when I view the same files.

The presence of these lines obscures my view of the text I want to see on
the page. I've searched high and low for a preference that might need to be
changed but have found nothing that will make these lines go away.

All suggestions would be most welcome!

Joan

 

[Karen]

Hi Joan,

I use Word 2003, so I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but this
is one of the things I might check out:

When you're using your notebook and you open the document, If you go to
your Drawing Toolbar and click on "Draw" you will see an option that
says "Grid". When the dialogue box "Drawing Grid" pops up, ensure that
the box beside "Display gridlines on screen" is not checked.

That's the only thing I can think of. Hopefully someone more
knowledgeable will be along shortly to help you out.

Karen

 

[A Baffled User]

Dear Karen,

Many thanks for this suggestion. It worked!! I had thought of toggling the
grid lines option under Tables, but since I never use the drawing toolbar, I
hadn't thought of that. I'm so happy to know that there's nothing wrong with
my computer!

Joan