Thanks for your response Yanick.

This does work, but there is a problem. I need to insure that everyone who views this document (at least when they initially open it) views it without the gridlines. It looks like the ActiveWindow.View object is not stored in the Word document.

It seems to depend on how each user has their Word environment set up.
After trying out your code I searched around the Word environment and saw where they can set the TableGridLines property.

If there is another way of making sure the gridlines are not viewable I'd give it a try. If not, I'll try formating these sections of the document without using a table.

thanks again.