If you fill the cells with colour, it covers the gridlines.
You can add borders to the cells, by using the Borders palette on the
toolbar, or FormatCells.

Neal Lavon wrote:
Is there a way to show an Excel chart's gridlines in a series of cells
if I use a color pallete in those cells?




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Debra Dalgleish
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