Dotted Line Removal
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From: Brenda on 17 Apr 2010 20:35 I highlighted the entire text and used "Ctrl Q" as recmmended at (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm) It worked great. Marcus M wrote: Dotted line to remove 08-Feb-10 I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it does not seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. Previous Posts In This Thread: On Monday, February 08, 2010 5:26 AM Marcus M wrote: Dotted line to remove I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it does not seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. On Monday, February 08, 2010 5:30 AM Graham Mayor wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm -- <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<> On Monday, February 08, 2010 9:29 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: That's assuming it is not just a page break.--Suzanne S. That's assuming it is not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org On Monday, February 08, 2010 11:37 AM Marcus M wrote: Thank you both for your prompt response. Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it does not work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: On Monday, February 08, 2010 1:31 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:14 PM Marcus M wrote: Hello again,The position now is this. Hello again, The position now is this. I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30 page story that is as I wrote it. However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem. At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo typing' icon. I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks - left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared. That may help you both in future with some other questioner. So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on the cause. Many thanks for your help. Regards to you both. Marcus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:25 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to(http://word.mvps. If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm) and followed the directions there, then you would already have known this and would long since have solved the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:50 PM MikeB wrote: thegh30lyonnat the gh 30 ly on n at On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:25 PM Gordon wrote: Works OK here... Works OK here... On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:09 PM Terry Farrell wrote: Works here too...--Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP Works here too... -- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:05 PM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The site was down earlier today; it is back up now.--Suzanne S. The site was down earlier today; it is back up now. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org On Thursday, March 25, 2010 8:34 PM Vickie Tuck wrote: dotted lines I am getting those dotted lines as well after using an asterik to make a line. However, I am not able to get rid of them. Any suggestions? Thank you, Vickie Tuck On Monday, April 12, 2010 7:09 AM Maddy Maddocks wrote: Dotted lines across word documents I've had this annoying problem with other word software as well as 2007 and each time it's because I've tried to include a section break with an asterix between paragraphs to denote change of scene in my story and once the dotted line menance appears there seems no way to remove it. Now I have discovered the solution: 1. If the problem occurs, highlight the whole document and click on 'Normal' this will reset the line spacing etc. to the default setting and the annoying dotted lines will disappear. 2. Then reclick on the spacing and formatting options you want and all is well again. 3. Now instead of breaking up paragraphs with a symbol I insert a small image. Hope all this works for you. Madeleine On Monday, April 12, 2010 8:25 AM Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The method you describe is quite unnecessary. The method you describe is quite unnecessary. Just selecting the paragraph below which the border appears and pressing Ctrl+Q will remove the border from that paragraph. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm. And you can still use asterisks as scene separators if you disable automatic borders. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org <Maddy Maddocks> wrote in message On Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:29 AM Maddy Maddocks wrote: The method I suggest is quite simple and effective Thanks for your comments however, the method you describe seems to be for borders. It isn't a border that appears within the document it's a weird file corruption that contaminates the text even when parts of it or all of it are cut and pasted into a new document. 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