To Remove Lines From a Column Grid With Evenly Spaced Lines

Use this procedure to remove lines from a grid with evenly spaced lines. The lines will always be distributed evenly along the grid axis. To remove a particular line and have all the other lines stay in their original places, open the grid’s Properties palette, and change the Layout type to Manual.

  1. Select the column grid from which you want to remove lines.
  2. Remove grid lines:
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    remove grid lines from the X axis of the grid click Column Grid tabX Axis panelRemove Grid Line. Then, click on the X axis. The number of grid lines decreases by one, while the overall size of the grid remains the same.
    remove grid lines from the Y axis of the grid Click Column Grid tabY Axis panelRemove Grid Line. Then, click on the Y axis. The number of grid lines decreases by one, while the overall size of the grid remains the same.