Comments on: Hermann Grids, An optical Illusion Best Avoided ../../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/ XLCubed Blog Thu, 10 Jan 2019 09:14:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 By: Making good diagrams in PowerPoint | Godick ../../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/#comment-53 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:51:29 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=209#comment-53 […] […]

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]]> By: Heatmap Tables with Excel | More Information per Pixel ../../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/#comment-51 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:57:47 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=209#comment-51 […] the grid lines format your table headers with light gray grid lines, enable the major grid lines in the chart and also format them with light gray. Set the chart area […]

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]]> By: derek ../../../../2008/07/hermann-grids-an-optical-illusion-best-avoided/#comment-49 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:12:01 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=209#comment-49 That’s if you have to have a grid at all. I am ruthless with my colleagues and format my tables so that the only vertical lines are the virtual ones created by left or right alignment of the columns (for this reason I avoid centre alignment, which is only really useful for huddling away from the cage bars of a grid).

Sometimes I relent and allow a light grating of horizontal lines, but not vertical ones.

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