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From: Les Desser on 14 Apr 2010 10:03 If I type a number of dashes in Word and press Return it automatically gets changed into a continuous line. How do I later remove such a line? Sometimes if I delete the text line above it then the line also goes but often I just can't get rid of it. I have to resort to creating a new document and then copy/paste the god bits over and then delete the old document. Thanks. -- Les Desser (The Reply-to address IS valid)
From: Twayne on 14 Apr 2010 11:03 In news:lzqSlgmVscxLFAoG(a)dessergr0up.invalid, Les Desser <NewsDump1(a)dessergroup.com> typed: > If I type a number of dashes in Word and press Return it > automatically gets changed into a continuous line. > > How do I later remove such a line? > > Sometimes if I delete the text line above it then the line > also goes but often I just can't get rid of it. I have to > resort to creating a new document and then copy/paste the > god bits over and then delete the old document. > > Thanks. I've found that if I select the line above, the line the line is on, and the following line, it always gets rid of it. Sometimes I have to add a line feed to get the space to select, but it works for me HTH, Twayne`
From: JoAnn Paules [MVP] on 14 Apr 2010 11:12 It's a paragraph border. Put your cursor in the paragraph directly above it and then look at the Borders and Shadings settings. You haven't said which version of Word you use so I can't tell you how to get there. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Les Desser" <NewsDump1(a)dessergroup.com> wrote in message news:lzqSlgmVscxLFAoG(a)dessergr0up.invalid... > If I type a number of dashes in Word and press Return it automatically > gets changed into a continuous line. > > How do I later remove such a line? > > Sometimes if I delete the text line above it then the line also goes but > often I just can't get rid of it. I have to resort to creating a new > document and then copy/paste the god bits over and then delete the old > document. > > Thanks. > -- > Les Desser > (The Reply-to address IS valid)
From: Les Desser on 14 Apr 2010 16:58 In article <uVBCmO#2KHA.5880(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>, Twayne <nobody(a)spamcop.net> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:03:21 writes >I've found that if I select the line above, the line the line is on, >and the following line, it always gets rid of it. Sometimes I have to >add a line feed to get the space to select, but it works for me However, often the paragraph in question contains valid text that I do not want to lose. So simple deletion is not an option. -- Les Desser (The Reply-to address IS valid)
From: Les Desser on 14 Apr 2010 17:02
In article <eBU8mT#2KHA.4028(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>, "JoAnn Paules [MVP]" <jl_paules(a)hotNOSPAMmail.com> Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:12:26 writes >It's a paragraph border. Put your cursor in the paragraph directly >above it and then look at the Borders and Shadings settings. You >haven't said which version of Word 2003 > you use so I can't tell you how to get there. Format > Borders and Shading. Thank! Indeed that worked - selecting None. Someone else has this problem using 2007. What is the appropriate steps there? -- Les Desser (The Reply-to address IS valid) |