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How to view grid lines between email messages in Outlook?

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As you know, there are grid lines between email messages for separating in Microsoft Outlook mail list. Not only can you hide or display these grid lines, but also change grid lines’ styles. This is an easy tutorial to display, hide, and change styles of grid lines between email messages in mail list of Microsoft Outlook.

To display, hide, or change styles of grid lines in mail list of Microsoft Outlook, please do it as following:

Step 1: Shift to the Mail view with clicking the "Mail" in the Navigation Pane, and then select the mail folder in which you will view grid lines between email messages.

Step 2: Open the Advanced View settings dialog box:

  • In Outlook 2007, please click "View" > "Current View" > "Customize Current View".
  • In Outlook 2010 and 2013, please click the "View Settings" button on the "View" tab.
Open Advanced View Settings

Step 3: In the popping up dialog box, please click the "Other Settings" button.

Click Other Settings

Step 4: In the Other Settings dialog box, click the "Grid line style:" box, and select one of grid line style in the drop down list.

Select Grid Line Style

To hide grid lines between email messages, please select the "No grid lines".

To change styles of grid lines between email messages, please select one of "Small dots", "Large dots", "Dashes", or "Solid".

Step 5: Click all "OK" buttons in each dialog box.

Up to now, the specified style of grid lines has been changed between all email messages in the specified folder. See the following screenshot:

Grid Lines Changed in Outlook

In Outlook 2010 and 2013, you can apply the view settings of specified folder to other folders by clicking "Change View" > "Apply Current View to Other Mail Folders" on the "View" tab.

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