See Gridlines and Borders
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/gridline.htm

You will not print gridlines if you are not using automatic background (pattern) color
white is a color and it will wipe out gridlines.

Display of gridlines and Printing of gridlines are two different things.
see my page above.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"finding-my-way635" wrote in message
...
I follow the directions in help but it still doesn't work