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CFA-341
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April 28, 2016
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Checkered Background appearing on Adobe PDF Word.doc File...?

  • April 28, 2016
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Created a MSWord document on my iMac and saved it as a PDFile using Acrobat Adobe a couple months ago. 

Opened the PDF version this morning and each page was covered with a gray checkered pattern that I was unable to get rid of -- any ideas/suggestions as to what caused this problem and just how do I eliminate this pattern from each page...? 

Thanks for any assist.  CFA-341

    Correct answer try67

    Go to the Edit menu (might be the Acrobat menu on a Mac) - Preferences - Page Display and tick off "Show transparency grid".

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    Rob Pfaffmann
    Participant
    January 15, 2024

    It very frustrating for upgrades to change defaults settings like background transparency. It took me a half hour to find it while on deadline. Adobe please think about your users when changing setting defaults!

      try67
      Community Expert
      try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
      Community Expert
      April 28, 2016

      Go to the Edit menu (might be the Acrobat menu on a Mac) - Preferences - Page Display and tick off "Show transparency grid".

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        CFA-341Author
        Participant
        April 29, 2016

              -- thanks for the tip - worked like a charm!

                    -- for some reason, the grid preference you described seemed to activate itself...  had previously accessed this file with no background pattern - then all of the sudden - it's there a couple wks later...

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