How to preview table borders in Microsoft Word 2010?
Solution 1:
You can enable View Gridlines under Table Tools > Layout when a table is focused. When no border is set, Word will draw a light-blue, dashed line in its place.
Demonstration:
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With borders:
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Without borders:
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What is printed:
Alternatively,
Word will draw table gridlines if you have Show text boundaries enabled under File > Options > Advanced > Show document content. The View Gridlines option above only applies to tables while this applies to the entire document. Also, the lines are dotted instead of dashed.
