Minor MS WORD Problem

Appreciate some assistance.

Using MS WORD (9.0.2720) to prepare some documents.
Managed to place a horizontal line in between two paragraphs, and have no clue as to how to get rid of the line!!! The line runs from the left margin to the right margin.

Have tried to highlight and delete, play around with several options, but that accomplished nothing. There is a way, but I do not know how to get rid of this line.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

 

About the only thing I can come up with if 'deleting' the line doesn't work is using the "undo" feature if you haven't gotten too far along for it to work.

Be sure to copy anything 'below' the offending line before you try, though. If that doesn't work, I know of nothing else except to start over but. . . then again, I'm a dummy who has started over A LOT.

I HTH but I also hope that if there is a better solution someone shows up with it before you have to re-do your work.


Mike

 

There are a couple of ways to place a horizontal line. One is with Borders and Shading, the other I can't recall as I've never used it. If you used B&S, you can get rid of it by putting the cursor anywhere in the first line of the paragraph below the line then click on Format>Borders and Shading. If the line shows on the picture at the right side of the Borders tab, just click on it and it will go away. If that doesn't work, try the same thing with the cursor in the last line of the paragraph above the line. If neither of those work, let me know and I'll see if I can track down the other way to insert lines.

 

Thanks for the replies.

As suggested, the darn (+ a few other adjectives) horizontal line is considered a border by the WORD proggie.

Finally got rid of it as follows:

-The first step was to hit the menu bar: Edit>Select All.
-Then went to the Format menu, clicked Borders and Shading, and then clicked the Page Border tab.
-In the Page Border tab, under the area of Preview, clicked where the line/border was (bottom in this case).
-Went to: Apply to, and chose: Paragraph.
-Then went to: Settings, and clicked the frame indicating: None

Clicked: OK, got out of the Borders and Shading frame, went back to the document, and clicked on a blank space. The previously highlighted text went back to not being highlighted, and the horizontal line went AWAY.

Good grief!

 

Glad your problem is solved.