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When you are working with Word's drawing tools, you might find it difficult to align objects. Fortunately, there is a drawing feature that you can use to assist you in doing this. You can use the drawing grid to provide a temporary, nonprinting straight edge. In this way you can easily align other objects in your drawing.
Follow these steps to make sure the drawing grid is turned on:
Figure 1. The Grid and Guides dialog box.
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2018-11-29 08:46:20
Milan Jakes
The second unbelievability is, that the snapping to grids is significantly diffrent when I move objects by mouse and by arrow keys. Microsft is laughing loudly for what we throwed the money out.
2018-11-29 08:31:53
Milan Jakes
What a uselessness and stupidity of the new Microsoft Office Word. When I move the drawing canvas, the objects are moved with it but the grids are not related with canvas but with the page. So objects are completely out of grids now (the same is true for many other operations). The feature of grid visibility switching between all Office aplication is also unbelevable. In other words the Miscrosoft says to all users not spend money for its aplication any more, stop the use of their applications and find another applications and systems. Exasperated user Milan Jakes.
2017-04-26 18:27:36
Barnomala
How do you put a picture behind the grid ?
2016-09-12 11:57:15
Benjamin C. Morin
In Word 2010 and 2013, if you like to work with the default Gridlines screen, simply Click on the View Tab, Find the Show group, and click on the Gridlines check box.
I don't work with Word 2016, but you can check this process to see if it works there as well.
I hope this helps.
Benjamin C. Morin
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