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Strange horizontal lines
Hello folks,
I have a document with horizontal lines I can't explain, and sometimes can't remove. Each seems to be associated with a paragraph mark, and runs from the left indent to the right indent. If I move the first line indent, the paragraph mark moves with it, but the extents of the line remain with the left and right indents. If I move the right indent from the right margin, the extent of the line moves with it, but the (empty)paragraph above it also gets a horizontal line -- now there are two horizontal lines. Moving the left indent causes similar things to happen, difficult to explain. The line is slightly below where the underline characters would be, and there is no underline font formatting (there's no text in this paragraph anyway). Paragraph and font formatting shows nothing that's not in other paragraphs. Images he http://www.smokeylake.com/horizontal...ontallines.htm The problem is that I can't get rid of these lines. They move around when I try to delete them, and eventually one of my text lines gets them. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Strange horizontal lines
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm
-- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... Hello folks, I have a document with horizontal lines I can't explain, and sometimes can't remove. Each seems to be associated with a paragraph mark, and runs from the left indent to the right indent. If I move the first line indent, the paragraph mark moves with it, but the extents of the line remain with the left and right indents. If I move the right indent from the right margin, the extent of the line moves with it, but the (empty)paragraph above it also gets a horizontal line -- now there are two horizontal lines. Moving the left indent causes similar things to happen, difficult to explain. The line is slightly below where the underline characters would be, and there is no underline font formatting (there's no text in this paragraph anyway). Paragraph and font formatting shows nothing that's not in other paragraphs. Images he http://www.smokeylake.com/horizontal...ontallines.htm The problem is that I can't get rid of these lines. They move around when I try to delete them, and eventually one of my text lines gets them. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Strange horizontal lines
Mary,
That did it! It was border formatting in the paragraph ABOVE it, of all things. Hooda thunk? I don't understand the very strange behavior when I moved the indents of the paragraph where the line appeared to be. Word put this border in automagically, apparently, which is like other things it does automatically to the great consternation of many users. I know now that there's an option for it, but no one goes through all the dialogs of such a large program before they use it. When I type three hyphens, it does it again, though a little box appears, allowing me to undo the border line it's just created. I don't recall any of that happening when the document was created. Excel has similar "I think I'll help the user, though it may drive him totally away in frustration" issues. Thanks so much. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... Hello folks, I have a document with horizontal lines I can't explain, and sometimes can't remove. Each seems to be associated with a paragraph mark, and runs from the left indent to the right indent. If I move the first line indent, the paragraph mark moves with it, but the extents of the line remain with the left and right indents. If I move the right indent from the right margin, the extent of the line moves with it, but the (empty)paragraph above it also gets a horizontal line -- now there are two horizontal lines. Moving the left indent causes similar things to happen, difficult to explain. The line is slightly below where the underline characters would be, and there is no underline font formatting (there's no text in this paragraph anyway). Paragraph and font formatting shows nothing that's not in other paragraphs. Images he http://www.smokeylake.com/horizontal...ontallines.htm The problem is that I can't get rid of these lines. They move around when I try to delete them, and eventually one of my text lines gets them. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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Strange horizontal lines
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TameAutoFormat.htm
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... Mary, That did it! It was border formatting in the paragraph ABOVE it, of all things. Hooda thunk? I don't understand the very strange behavior when I moved the indents of the paragraph where the line appeared to be. Word put this border in automagically, apparently, which is like other things it does automatically to the great consternation of many users. I know now that there's an option for it, but no one goes through all the dialogs of such a large program before they use it. When I type three hyphens, it does it again, though a little box appears, allowing me to undo the border line it's just created. I don't recall any of that happening when the document was created. Excel has similar "I think I'll help the user, though it may drive him totally away in frustration" issues. Thanks so much. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mary Sauer" wrote in message ... http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Mary Sauer MSFT MVP http://office.microsoft.com/ http://msauer.mvps.org/ news://msnews.microsoft.com "Earl Kiosterud" wrote in message ... Hello folks, I have a document with horizontal lines I can't explain, and sometimes can't remove. Each seems to be associated with a paragraph mark, and runs from the left indent to the right indent. If I move the first line indent, the paragraph mark moves with it, but the extents of the line remain with the left and right indents. If I move the right indent from the right margin, the extent of the line moves with it, but the (empty)paragraph above it also gets a horizontal line -- now there are two horizontal lines. Moving the left indent causes similar things to happen, difficult to explain. The line is slightly below where the underline characters would be, and there is no underline font formatting (there's no text in this paragraph anyway). Paragraph and font formatting shows nothing that's not in other paragraphs. Images he http://www.smokeylake.com/horizontal...ontallines.htm The problem is that I can't get rid of these lines. They move around when I try to delete them, and eventually one of my text lines gets them. -- Regards from Virginia Beach, Earl Kiosterud www.smokeylake.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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