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  • 5/27/2025
Discover how to disable gridlines in Excel. We will also cover how to remove Gridlines from specific cells in Excel in the video. And will demonstrate how to how to use a keyboard shortcut to remove gridline in Excel.

Excel is a powerful tool for organizing and analyzing data, but sometimes the visual aids such as gridlines can be distracting or unnecessary. Whether you're working on a complex spreadsheet or preparing a presentation, you may need to disable the gridlines in Excel to make your data more visually appealing. In this guide, we'll show you how to disable gridlines in Excel using simple steps and keyboard shortcuts. We'll also provide tips on how to hide gridlines for printing purposes only, so you can customize your Excel documents to meet your specific needs.

The keyboard shortcut to toggle gridlines on and off in Excel is "Ctrl + Shift + 8". Pressing this shortcut key combination once will hide the gridlines, and pressing it again will show the gridlines again. This can be a quick and convenient way to toggle gridlines on and off without having to go through the menus or ribbon.

Remove gridlines (from ribbon)
1) View ~ Show ~ Gridlines

Remove gridlines (shortcut)
These are this shortcuts to remove gridlines in Excel.
Alt + WVG

Remove gridlines (Excel option)
1) File
2) Options
3) Advanced
4) Show gridlines


Remove specific cell gridlines (fill color)
1) Select cells.
2) Home ~ Font ~ Fill color
3) Select White


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00:00Gridlines are these gray lines that divide the cell, but sometimes it makes sense to disable
00:04or remove these grid lines. There are four basic ways to disable or remove these grid lines. I
00:09will also demonstrate how to remove the grid lines for specific cell towards the end of the video.
00:13The first method is to use the ribbon. Go to view and under show there's this grid line. Just remove
00:18the checkbox to remove the grid line. The second method is to use the hard key alternate wvg which
00:24will disable the grid line and again alternate wvg will enable the grid line again. The third
00:29way is to use Excel option. Go to file and then go to options and after that on this menu here
00:37on the tab, I'm going to click on advanced and scroll all the way down until you see display option.
00:42Just remove the checkbox and you can see the grid lines gone. To remove grid line for specific cell,
00:48you highlight the cells that you want to remove the grid line, go to home, go font,
00:52and basically change the fill color to white.

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