Let us explore options that you see in Figure 4.Note that the name of this Task Pane may be different depending upon the type of Gridline you have selected.įigure 4: Format Major Gridlines Task Pane Either way, this opens the Format Major Gridlines Task Pane, as shown in Figure 4.You need to then deselect everything in the chart, and make sure you right-click on the Gridline. If you do not get to see the Format Gridlines option in the contextual menu, you might have right-clicked on another chart element instead of the Gridline. Within this contextual menu, select the Format Gridlines option (refer to Figure 3 again). Alternatively, if you have Gridlines visible on your chart, carefully right-click any Gridline to bring up a contextual menu shown in Figure 3, below.Within this sub-gallery, select More Options (highlighted in green within Figure 2). Click this right-arrow to open the Gridlines sub-gallery. This step ensures that the Primary Major Horizontal Gridlines are visible on the chart, and also reveals a right-arrow, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 2. Within the Chart Elements gallery, select the Gridlines check-box (highlighted in red within Figure 2). Doing so opens the Chart Elements gallery as shown in Figure 2, below.Now, select the chart and click the Chart Elements button highlighted in red within Figure 1, above. If you don't have an existing chart, insert a new chart on your slide. You first need to have a chart in your presentation.In this tutorial, we will look at these format options:
How to get gridlines in chem draw windows#
Yes, you can enable Vertical Gridlines too as we explored in our Chart Gridlines in PowerPoint 2013 for Windows tutorial, and more importantly you can format these Gridlines to appear exactly as you want. You might have noticed that by default, PowerPoint 2013 for Windows only shows Horizontal Major Gridlines on a chart, as shown in Figure 1.įigure 1: Chart showing default status of Gridlines