If it's a border, you should be able to remove it from the footer pane by
resetting the style (Ctrl+Q) or choosing Format | Borders: None. If it's a
drawing line, you can select and delete it. To learn more about how to use
headers and footers, see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/HeaderFooter.htm

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"Euna" wrote in message
...
Thomp: Thank you for your assistance. I have, of course, already tried
the
basic stuff like you suggested. There appears to be a code somewhere that
is
keeping me from inserting the page numbers. At the bottom of the first
page
there is an underscore line that prints when the page is printed, but it
will
not allow me to access it to delete it. That may be the code that is
giving
me the problem, but I can't "get" to it to delete it. Any other
suggestions?

Thanks,

Euna

"thomp" wrote:

Euna, try this, maybe you already have.

View Headers and Footers, this will allow you to insert page numbers

hope this helps


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"Euna" wrote:

I used a document that was full of headers and footers, and I thought
I
deleted everything, but once I completed teh 430 page document, I was
not
able to insert page numbers. There's an underscore line at the bottom
of the
first page, and you can "see" it but you can't "get" to it to delete
it. I
don't know if that is keeping me from inserting page numbers, but it
won't
let me. Any ideas why? This is fairly URGENT!!! Also, I've tried
copying
the first portion of that page and pasting it into a new document, but
that
code, whatever it is, follows me to the new document. HELP!!!!!