Easily organize shapes in Word

To turn on or turn off Gridlines in Word, do the following:

On the Layout tab, in the Arrange group, in the Align dropdown list, click View Gridlines:

To disable gridlines, uncheck View Gridlines.

You can also change Grid Settings:

   1.   On the Layout tab, in the Arrange group, in the Align dropdown list, click Grid Settings...:

   2.   On the Grid and Guides dialog box:

• In the Grid settings section:
  • Choose the spacing value that you want in the Horizontal spacing field to specify horizontal spacing.
  • Choose the spacing value that you want in the Vertical spacing field to specify vertical spacing.
• In the Grid origin section:
  • Uncheck the Use margins checkbox to extend the drawing grid to the edge of the document.
  • Choose the appropriate margins, if you want, in the Horizontal origin and Vertical origin fields.
• In the Show grid section:
  • Select the Display gridlines on screen checkbox to display only some gridlines.
  • Select the number of gridlines that you want to display in the Vertical every or Horizontal every fields.

See also this tip in French: Comment organiser facilement des formes dans Word.