Gridlines are the faint lines used to distinguish cells in an Excel worksheet. With gridlines, users can easily distinguish the boundaries of each cell and read data in an organized manner. But in certain cases, those gridlines can be quite distracting. In this article, you will learn how to programmatically show or hide/remove gridlines in an Excel worksheet using Spire.XLS for .NET.
Install Spire.XLS for .NET
To begin with, you need to add the DLL files included in the Spire.XLS for .NET package as references in your .NET project. The DLL files can be either downloaded from this link or installed via NuGet.
PM> Install-Package Spire.XLS
Hide or Show Gridlines in Excel
The detailed steps are as follows.
- Create a Workbook object.
- Load a sample Excel document using Workbook.LoadFromFile() method.
- Get a specified worksheet using Workbook.Worksheets[] property.
- Hide or show gridlines in the specified worksheet using Worksheet.GridLinesVisible property.
- Save the result file using Workbook.SaveToFile() method.
- C#
- VB.NET
using Spire.Xls;
namespace RemoveGridlines
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Create a Workbook object
Workbook workbook = new Workbook();
//Load a sample Excel document
workbook.LoadFromFile(@"E:\Files\Test.xlsx");
//Get the first worksheet
Worksheet worksheet = workbook.Worksheets[0];
//Hide gridlines in the specified worksheet
worksheet.GridLinesVisible = false;
//Show gridlines in the specified worksheet
//worksheet.GridLinesVisible = true;
//Save the document
workbook.SaveToFile("Gridlines.xlsx", ExcelVersion.Version2010);
}
}
}
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