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And now that I have gone through all those gyrations, I have come up with an even better way, although this one takes a bit longer. If you are Word savvy at all you should have no problem with this. <br />Open a brand new sheet in Microsoft Word. On your bottom toolbar is an icon called Draw. Click it. Up will pop some choices. One of them is Grid. Select it. You'll see another menu that allows you to chose the size of your grid spacing. Make sure you are in mm not inches. See the previous message on how to change that. Select Snap Objects to grid and change the grid spacing in both areas to 3.5mm. Click okay and a beautiful 3.5mm by 3.5mm grid will be on your sheet! Don't celebrate yet. Its just a guide. <br />Now using the Line tool, very carefully set your double cross cursor on the upper left portion of your grid. Click your left mouse button and hold your shift key down. Holding shift will allow you to draw a perfectly straight line even if your hand moves a little. Drag that line all the way over to the right side of your grid and release. Go back to the left and repeat the process four more times. <br />Once you have 5 perfectly straight lines, select the first one and hold the shift key down and select the other four. You should now have all five selected. Press ctrl c and then ctrl v. You'll see a copy of the 5 lines you just drew. Grab the top one and drag them all down to the grid line below your fifth drawn line and release. Do it again, and again and again and again until you have copied the lines all the way down to the bottom. Be very careful in placing your lines to make sure you are setting them right on top of the guide grid underneath. Now repeat the process for the vertical lines. After its all done, you should have a perfect grid sheet with lines exactly 3.5mm apart...HO scale grid paper. This suggestion is a bit tougher but well worth it cause you'll have perfect 1 scale foot lines in both directions. Try it. I think you'll like the results. <br />John
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