I Googled "excel turn off gridlines" and this came up as the second choice:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/as...548151033.aspx

It tells how to create worksheet and workbook templates.

hth,

Doug Glancy

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I don't like gridlines on excel sheets. Is there a way to turn them off
permanetly ?

at the moment I have to select all sheets, and uncheck
tool-options-view-windowoptions-gridlines.

Is there a better way ?