Hi Robin
Is the vertical blue line in the email or in the attached Word document?
If it's in the email, then this is an issue with how the email was sent to
you. You'll have to ask the person who sent it to stop sending you emails
with vertical blue lines.
If the blue line is in the document, then you'll need to work out where the
blue line is saved. Can you click on the line and press delete? If not,
perhaps it's in the header. Do View Headers and Footers and poke around to
see if you can click on the line and then press delete.
INFERNAL BLUE EYESORE!!! 
Please don't yell at people here! We're all just volunteers trying to help
one another out.
Hope this helps.
Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word
"Robin" wrote in message
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Hello,
I received an email message with an attached WORD document. The document
contained a vertical blue line running down the left margin of the text.
What
causes this line and can it be removed? I would like to forward the
message
but I do not want that line appearing next to the text.
I would appreciate your assistance. I realize that this is probably a
ridiculous issue for many people however, the line is very distracting for
me
when reading the text. So I ask that someone please take pity on my
situation
and help me remove that INFERNAL BLUE EYESORE!!!
I am using Outlook 2003 and Word 2003 functions as my Outlook editor.
Thank you so very much!