Grid Lines in Excel VBA, VSTO (C#, VB.Net) code example

Gridlines

Represent border around cells in a sheet. These grid lines can be taken off during presentation or printing the sheet. Excel offers Gridlines property underlying PageSetup object which is boolean type and takes true/false as input respectively. Let’s put some steps to toggle GridLines in Excel Sheet.

Steps to Toggle Gridlines

Open Excel sheet
Navigate to Page Layout Ribbon tab
Under Sheet Options group checkbox “View” is checked default underlying Gridlines label
Uncheck the “View” checkbox and notice the Sheet working area it turns into white board

Default

After Uncheck

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2015 or above having Microsoft Office for Developer Tool installed
Create Excel Addin in C# code style (Visual Studio Tools for Office)
Create a ribbon designer and put button

VSTO C# code example

private void btnToggleGridlines_Click(object sender, RibbonControlEventArgs e)
{
	//reference active sheet
	excel.Worksheet oWorksheet = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveSheet;            

	//get Page Setup object reference
	excel.PageSetup oPageSetup = oWorksheet.PageSetup;

	//Check if grid lines are visible
	if (oPageSetup.PrintGridlines == true)
		oPageSetup.PrintGridlines = false;
}

VB.Net code example

Private Sub GridLines_Click(sender As Object, e As RibbonControlEventArgs) Handles GridLines.Click
	'Bind worksheet object reference
	Dim oWorkSheet as excel.Worksheet
	oWorkSheet = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveSheet

	Get pagesetup object
	Dim oPageSetup As excel.PageSetup
	oPageSetup=oWorkSheet.PageSetup

	'Check if grid lines are visible or not
	if oPageSetup.PrintGridlines=True Then
		oPageSetup.PrintGridlines=False
	End If

End Sub

VBA code example

Public Sub ShowHideGridLines()
    With ActiveSheet.PageSetup
        If .PrintGridlines = True Then
            .PrintGridlines = False
        End If
    End With
End Sub

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