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"Thomas McGregor" wrote in message
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I copied some text and pictures from a web page and pasted it into a Word
document.
Unfortuantely some (a lot) of (nested) "box-" lines are displayed around
paragraphes
and pictures.

What are these lines and how do I disable them (at least their visibility)
in Word ?

Thomas