How to Show and Hide Gridlines in Excel To show and hide an Excel worksheet's gridlines, check or uncheck the "Gridlines" checkbox in the Show group of the View tab on the ribbon.

We show you three ways to remove or hide Gridlines in Microsoft Excel. The horizontal & vertical lines are called Gridlines in a worksheet.

To preserve the grid lines in your printout, you must modify the display settings for each applicable worksheet. Microsoft Excel, however, only shows borders around cells containing actual data.