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On 01/08/01 12:47 PM, Keith Cronin (kcronin -at- DALEEN -dot- COM) wrote:
>Bottom line: I can set MY computer to hide gridlines, but is there a way
>to force it to appear that way on an unknown machine? (BTW, I'm using Word
>2000.)
It seems to me that you're trying to use Word as a publishing *medium*
rather than a publishing *tool.* Gridline preferences are set for each
user's instance of Word, and it is a user-unfriendly act to change them
without permission simply to make your document look better.
However, I'd recommend one of the following solutions:
1) Convert the document to PDF before distributing. You preserve the
exact appearance this way (better, since it's emulating printed output,
not Word's environment) but with a free Acrobat reader available for most
major platforms and some minor ones. You can even convert to PDF for free
on Mac, UNIX-type platforms, and others.
2) You could write an auto-open Word macro that sets the gridline
preference whenever the document's opened. That's kind of rude (even if
you somehow try to set it back later), but Word and some virus programs
block auto-open macros by default these days, so this probably won't work
well for you.
Bottom line, use a tool more suited to what you want to accomplish, or
live with the gridlines...
Hope this helps,
----->Mike
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