Gridlines

This has come up more than once in the lab. Today, a visitor to the lab wanted to just drop in and print a grid to use. He knew to open the spreadsheet and then was surprised that when he printed, there were only blank sheets.

Well, I remembered from other teachers having this need to print a grid - that there is one thing you need to know.

On Microsoft Office -

Go to File - Page Setup - and then check what you do want to print.

On Open Office - the setup is slightly different. You go to Format - Page - Sheet and then check what you want to have printed.

This is a very simple tip, but one that I get asked often. If there is nothing on the page, you need to put a period at the very end cell to get the gridlines to print for the whole page.