It sounds like a border. Select Borders and Shading from the Format menu
and you will probably see it in the representation of the page that appears
under the Borders tab.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Sheryl" wrote in message
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A bold black line mysteriously appeared across my page and following pages
in
a Word doc. I cannot get rid of it by delete/cut/paste or anything else.
Please help