Microsoft Word Snap To Grid

By default, Word makes objects snap (jump) to an underlying grid laid across the document. If you drag an object, such as a shape, you'll notice that it moves in little jerks rather than smoothly. This is because of the grid - but because the grid is normally invisible, it's not obvious. Click: about the 'snap to grid' feature in Microsoft Access at www.teachUcomp.com. Get the complete tutoria. Select Align Grid Settings. Use the settings to enable the Snap-to feature, display alignment guides, and change the distance between gridlines. As this Microsoft Word support article says, the Snap To feature only works in Print view. Divide Your Page for the Fold. For greeting cards that fold down the middle, you can divide the page in half.

Microsoft word turn off snap to grid

To configure the grid, or to turn off snapping, follow these steps:

Grid

1. Select a shape. Word adds the Drawing Tools section to theRibbon:

2. On the Format tab, in the Arrange group, choose theAlign drop-down list. In this list click the View Gridlines if you want to turn on thedisplay of the grid:

Microsoft word table snap to grid

3. On the Format tab, in the Arrange group, choose theAlign drop-down list. In this list click the Grid Settings... to display the Grid and Guides dialog box:

  • Select the Snap objects to other objects checkbox if you want to make an object you'redragging snap to another nearby object. This feature lets you create multiobject drawings morequickly and is usually helpful.

Microsoft Word Turn Off Snap To Grid

  • In the Grid settings area, you can use the Horizontal spacing text box and theVertical spacing text box to change the size of the grid's rectangles.
  • In the Grid origin area, select the Use margins checkbox if you want the grid tostart at the document's margins. If you need to position objects in the margins, clear the Usemargins checkbox, and then set the horizontal starting position for the grid in theHorizontal origin text box and the vertical starting position in the Vertical origintext box.
  • Choose settings in the Show grid area:
    • Display gridlines on screen - Select this checkbox if you want to see gridlinesonscreen. Seeing them can be helpful for positioning objects, but they tend to make workingwith text hard.
    • Vertical every - Select this checkbox if you want to see vertical gridlines. In thetext box, specify the number of vertical grid intervals between displayed lines.
    • Horizontal every - In this text box, specify the number of horizontal grid intervalsbetween displayed lines.
    • Snap objects to grid when the gridlines are not displayed - Select this checkbox ifyou want Word to snap objects to the grid even when you can't see the gridlines.
  • If you want to make these grid settings the default for the current template, click theSet As Default... button, and then click Yes in the confirmation dialog box:

Microsoft Word Snap To Grid Template

See also this tip in French:Aligner un objet sur la grille ou sur une forme.