Re: vanishing grid lines

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:27:05PM -0400, Chris Dunn wrote:
> Can some kind soul please point me towards the resolution of an annoying
> and recurrent problem in Gnumeric (and in Excel if that has any
> relevance).
> 
> Some action that I take in Gnumeric causes an area of grid lines to
> disappear from the display. Not sure how I achieved it, but it was
> unwanted behaviour.
> 
> Now how to get the grid lines back again? Can't find the route.
> 
> I can vanish all the grid lines in the sheet, but when I reinstate them,
> the lines that were previously missing are still not there.
> 
> Try putting in borders around the cell I think. All apparent options
> under this procedure seem to result in borders that are more heavily
> weighted than the standard grid lines and therefore not acceptable.
> 
> What silliness am I doing, and how can I correct my ways?

Hard to make any specific suggestions without seeing a sample but
the first thing that occurs is that you're formatting the cell
background colour to white ?  When a background is set there are no
gridlines in gnumeric or XL.