making a grid

Sure, there are myriad ways of making a grid, and you gave a few.

I think using a spreadsheet program might be very cumbersome in trying to get the width and height of the cells desired.

Myself, having Word, I would think it to be easier than many of the other ways. In Word that is an "Insert Table" button that usually defaults to appear on the Standard Taskbar.

Clicking that button you can then easily hold down the selection to the 4x24 (or was it 24x4? can't tell from his terminology).

If it is 24x4 then the page will probably need to be in Landscape mode first, since a Portrait page will probably be too narrow to allow 24 wide.

Once the grid is on the page it is very simple to adjust the grid lines, just click and drag individually, or you can force all to be a particular size (and width, even line type).

While kevinran said: "I'm looking for an online program that ..."
I will bet that he really meant he was looking for a program on-line.

I think that because he also said: "Short of getting out a ruler and drawing it by hand ..."

Re-reading his post I think you are correct Chuck.

In that case there are plenty of ways to do this with whatever he has on his system without having to download and/or install anything else.

It's a shame he hasn't responded so far.

Mark

be right about the online thing. As stated, I use Gimp for grids, it doesn't get much easier but (as a whole) may be a bit large and complicated for someone who just wants a grid and nothing else too.

Paul

thanks, ive figured it out w open office

Well, great, now tell us what you did.
OpenOffice has no less than 5 completely separate applications in it, and at least as many ways of doing what you wanted. Some ways are not as efficient as other ways.

But unless you tell us what you have used, and perhaps even the steps of arriving at your current solution, this forum thread is helping no one.

It is great that you have found a solution by asking us who wanted to help, now it is your turn to help others, by informing all the others what you have done.

Not that ya'll did anything but fuss w/ each other. Go to Openoffice.org and download their free software, you will have 6 Icons on your desktop, dbl clk Openoffice Writer, click on the table icon above the ruler bar at 4.2", set your number of rows and columns bingo.Chill

but OpenOffice was suggested in the first reply to you.

Mind you, it's a bit like taking a sledge hammer to crack a peanut. You could have achieved what you wanted with any number of apps you probably already have installed on your computer.

So I'm not sure what you were fussing about.

Mark

I have no idea what you are wanting to fuss about, telling people to "Chill" indeed.

The people here were making suggestions to your poorly worded request. It was not until days after you made your request, where someone wondered why you did not come back and tell, or clarify, what it is that you wanted, when you finally came back.

You want to be unappreciative and snub the fine suggestions here, well isn't that just great?! What a fine example of the community you are.

You figured out what to do, and all I asked was for you to tell others what you found out. That's not unreasonable. The world of computers cam befuddle a lot of people, not everybody can be as 'smart' as you think of yourself. It's about time you start to learn a little humility and think a little more of those who also read these messages. They are here to learn or help. If you can't do either then why are you here at all?

Fussed? Hmmm. I didn't see that anywhere here. That was plain rude and ignorant without a doubt.
Some major lack of parenting somewhere down the line...

Paul