Free Printable Graph Paper

To print graph paper on your own printer (on 8.5" x 11" paper), you can download the following PDF files (viewable using Adobe Reader). These free printable graph paper files were created from the Microsoft Word version of the template below (the Excel template is less accurate).

1/4 Inch Graph Paper	1/5 Inch Graph Paper
Centimeter Graph Paper	Isometric Graph Paper portrait | landscape

In the inch grid paper and cm grid paper the scaling is fairly precise, but not exact. The isometric grid paper is scaled to inches, measured from vertex to vertex.

If you aren't concerned with exact scaling, Excel can be a pretty useful tool for creating simple floor plans, landscaping plans, Sudoku grids, and other stuff (see reference [1]). I have even used it to plan how I was going to load furniture into a moving truck.

The problem with the scaling is that Excel's column widths and row heights are based on pixels rather than printed dimensions (link inches or centimeters). It is possible to get pretty close to an inch scale using the Excel template by manipulating the pixel width and height of the columns and rows, and that is what I have done in the above graph paper template (and wasted a lot of paper in the process). However, if you want a more precise grid, use Word or Powerpoint to define a table with the cell widths and heights set to specific widths.