Also, when you delete the extra carriage return for the blank line, the
offending gray line reaching all the way across the page does not move. It
stays where it is, the equivalent of what would be two lines below the
paragraph. And when I continue that paragraph by typing extra lines into it,
so that it goes on to the next page, the line still stays in place. It even
stays there right through the 'orphan control' feature, which moves the last
two lines to the next page so there won't be an orphan there, then moves one
of them back up as soon as it has enough text to do so. So it seems to belong
to the page somehow. The page-ending pilcrow occurs below the line.
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Peyton Todd
"Peyton Todd" wrote:
Hi Suzanne. How I wish that turned out to be true. Alas, selecting the
paragraph above the line, going to Borders and Shading and choosing None
doesn't get rid of the line. (Borders and Shading already said 'None' anyway.)
Also, it doesn't look the same as one of those borders. To test it, I added
a paragraph, then some dashes below it and pressed Enter. The line which
appeared was darker than the one I'm trying to get rid of, which is gray, and
it appeared directly below the paragraph, while the line I'm trying to get
rid of is nearly an inch (roughly two lines) below it.
If you turn click the pilcrow tool to see carriage returns, etc., it turns
out that there is indeed an extra carriage return (but just one) after the
paragraph and before the line (that is: there's the carriage return which
ends the paragraph, then another for a blank line. However, when you select
the one for the blank line and apply the Borders and Shading = None
procedure, it doesn't work for that either.
Other ideas?
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Peyton Todd
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Could this line be a border? See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Peyton Todd" wrote in message
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Hello. Suddenly there has appeared a line at the bottom of one of my pages
in
Word 2003. It does not appear in Normal View, but it does appear in Print
Layout View, and in a PDF which gets built from the document. I seem to
remember encountering this problem before, and a Word MVP identified it as
a
section break, but when I check out how to delete section breaks in Word
Help, I'm told simply to select the section break and press Delete. But
apparently the line itself cannot be selected, and when I select a block
of
text spanning it and press Delete, the text goes away but the line
remains.
Thanks for your help.
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Peyton Todd