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The gridlines help you track information on the screen easier and to locate cells quickly. Normally the gridlines are shown in black, but you may want to make them some other stylish color. If you want to change the gridline color, follow these steps:
Figure 1. The Advanced options of the Excel Options dialog box.
You can specify different gridline colors for each worksheet in a workbook.
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2020-05-28 16:54:48
Peter Atherton
With regards to John Mann's post: it works on grouped sheets in 2016
2020-05-27 14:01:15
Allen
It really is there Katherine -- Click File and then, at the left side of the screen look all the way near the bottom and you'll see "Options." Click that.
-Allen
2020-05-27 13:21:31
Katherine
There is no "options" in the back menu of excel in office 365 so this doesn't work for 365.
2019-10-19 18:28:06
John Mann
I hadn't paid much attention to this option - so much so that I had forgoten it exists. I've just been experimenting a bit with this option and note that it doesn't work on grouped worksheets (at least not in my copy of Excel 2010).
It does occur to me that it would be usefull to use the same colour for the grid and the tabs. This could help with keeping track of which sheet we are working on when we have several sheets with similar (or identical) layout. I have often missed the thin but obvious line across the screen matching the tab colour used by Lotus 1-2-3. While it would not be a terible hardship to manually make that combination, it would be nice to automate it.
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Excel versions: 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and Excel in Office 365. If you are using an earlier version (Excel 2003 or earlier), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for earlier versions of Excel, click here: 
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