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How to turn off the print gridlines in Excel?

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When you return to the Normal view from the Page Break Preview or Page Layout views in Excel, there will display some print gridliines as below screenshot shown, which is somewhat anoyying in some times. In this article, I will tell you how to turn off this bothersome lines in Excel.
A screenshot showing print gridlines in Excel

Disable print gridlines with Excel Options

Disable print gridlines with Kutools for Excel

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There is an option that can turn off or turn on the print gridlines as you need in Excel.

Click File > Options, and in the Excel Options dialog, click Advanced from the left pane, and go to scroll to Display options to this worksheet section in the right pane, and uncheck Show page breaks option. see screenshot:

A screenshot of File menu in Excel A screenshot showing the Display options for the worksheet in Excel

Click OK to go back to the sheet, and then the print gridlines are hidden.

arrow blue right bubble Disable print gridlines with Kutools for Excel

If you have Kutools for Excel, its View Options utility can quickly set same usually used options as possible as you can.

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After installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:(Free Download Kutools for Excel Now!)

Click Kutools > Show & Hide > View Options, and then uncheck Page breaks to disable the print gridlines, and click Ok to close the dialog. See screenshot:

A screenshot showing the View Options on the Kutools tab on the ribbon
A screenshot showing how to disable print gridlines in Kutools

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