Another option is Format/ Cells/ Patterns, as a background colour (even
white) will obscure gridlines (but not borders).
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David Biddulph

"D." wrote in message
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maybe try
tools,options,gridlines

On Feb 11, 12:38 pm, lunkhead
wrote:
How to correct this & reason it happened--it was fine until i started
messing
with it.
New to excel