Question : Printing out gridlines on a report

I have a user who wants to set up a report so it basically looks like a Word table where you have all the horizontal and vertical gridlines printing.  She's using Access 97.  I see that there's a "Gridlines" button that you can add to the toolbar, so I customized my toolbar and added this button.  However, it's always grayed out, and I can't figure out how to use it.  Is this what I want, or how do I get lines to print?  Don't misunderstand this and think that I want  separate boxed-borders around each control, because that's not what I want.  I want continuous lines rather than boxes, if that makes any sense.

Answer : Printing out gridlines on a report

My understanding is that the 'gridlines' option is only for reports in 'datasheet view' (which would explain why it's greyed out).

Instead, to achieve the look you want, I think you have to draw it with lines.  To clarify, if you add a horizontal line (tool on the 'toolbox' toolbar) under your detail controls, it will repeat under each line of detail.  Similarly, any horizontal lines placed in headers/footers which repeat in each of those.  Then, you draw vertical lines where you want them and set the height properties to exactly the same as the section they are in.  IE, if your detail is .375 set the vertuical line to .375

You'll get quick at this once you get used to copying and pasting the line as many times as you need it and then using a combination of shift-select and the size and align formatting tools.  Plus, you can set the heights/widths for those you've shift-selected all at once.

This takes a while to setup, but you can get it looking perfect with a little patience.

Hope that helps, let me know if I can clarify further.