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Align Shapes in Your Word Document Using Gridlines

When drawing shapes in Microsoft Word, in can be useful to turn on the drawing grid to make it easier to align various shapes with each other. To bring up gridlines on your document:

1. Check to see if the Drawing toolbar is showing on your screen - you can check by going to View - Toolbars and see if Drawing is ticked or not. If it is not ticked, then click on the word 'Drawing' to get the toolbar showing on your screen.

2. On the Drawing toolbar, click Draw on the left hand side.

3. Select Grid.

4. Select the Display gridlines on screen check box.

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