Tired of erasing holes in your graph paper or having to start over from scratch? Here's an easy way to create your own custom graph paper in Excel. Jan 29, 2014 How to Get Graph Paper on Microsoft Word: Microsoft. Getting graph paper on Microsoft Word is something that. Microsoft Word 2007/2010/2013. Making grid (graph) paper in Word Making grid / graph paper in Microsoft Word Standard sizes of graph paper are frequently available but there are times when a specific size of graph paper or a specific grid size is needed for a project. Although it might make sense to use Excel, which works almost exclusively with grids, to create such things, there is no function in Excel that allows you to choose specific sizes for cells other than in typographic units such as characters or points. Word is the program to use. Before you start give some thought to the size grid you want to print. If you are working with 8 1/2' x 11' paper you are limited to printing on all but the outer 1/4' border. If you wanted a grid of 3/8' (0.375') you would be able to print 8.25 ' /.375' = 22 columns across and 10.5' /.375' = 28 rows. If you wanted a fixed number of columns (say 30) you would have to divide 8.25' / 30 to determine that the column and row size would be 0.35' Once you have the row / column numbers computed follow these steps to create the grid. • Open a new document in Word • If you want to use the greatest possible part of the paper for a grid change the margins to.2' for top & bottom and.25' for left & right by clicking File / Page Setup. • Click Table / Insert / Table • Enter the number of columns and rows you computed - note that you may need to decrease the number of columns by 1 if the edges of the grid do not print • Enter the size of the column after Fixed column width • Highlight all of the first column (not the whole table) and right click the selection and choose Table properties and select the Row tab • Check Specify height, enter 0.375 and change Row height is to Exactly • Use print preview to look at the grid. • You may want want to center the grid to restore the leftmost part of the grid. • Right click the table, select Table properties • Select Alignment / Center Easy! ![]() ![]() ![]()
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