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.

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.

If Excel is not printing gridlines properly or printing only some gridlines, follow these suggestions to print Excel Worksheet with gridlines.