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Horizontal line in Word and unable to delete, please help.
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - |
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"garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: .. . . 12) ToC will not pick up any TC codes on pages 7 & following |
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What you describe sounds like a Footnote Separator. When you force it to the
next page, you get a Footnote Continuation Separator. This indicates that you have a footnote in the document. What I think is happening, judging from your description, is that the text of a footnote was deleted without deleting the (perhaps hidden) footnote reference in the text. The footnote thus remained, albeit empty. Perhaps footnotes are set to be "Below text" rather than at "Bottom of page," but in any case, working in Print Layout view, you (or someone) started typing in the footnote rather than in the document body. All the text from that point forward is now part of the footnote instead of the body text. Naturally, as you add to the footnote, it grows to take up page after page, each one headed with the Footnote Continuation Separator. This may be a little difficult to fix, but here's what I'd suggest: 1. Display all nonprinting characters (including Hidden text) using the Show All command. 2. Display text boundaries (Tools | Options View); this will help you get a better handle on the extent of text areas in the document. 3. Select all the text in the document that follows the original short line. Cut or Copy (I would suggest cutting all but a line or two of the text--leave a little to work with later.) 4. At the end of the last paragraph preceding the short line, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph. 5. Paste the cut/copied text here. 6. This is where it's going to get tricky. Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to open the footnote pane. When you place the insertion point in the footnote text, the footnote reference mark should be on the top line of the document text displayed above. With luck, you should be able to find it and delete it (even if it's formatted as Hidden, it should be displayed since you have Hidden text displayed. If so, select it and delete it. 7. If that doesn't work, close the footnote pane and use Edit | Go To to go to Footnote. If there's something there, Word may be able to find it. If it does, even if you can't see the reference mark, select a few characters on either side of the insertion point and delete. Then retype the visible text characters. 8. If that doesn't work, select the entire line where the footnote reference mark must be, delete it, and retype. 9. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas! You'll have to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" bud wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you describe sounds like a Footnote Separator. When you force it to the next page, you get a Footnote Continuation Separator. This indicates that you have a footnote in the document. What I think is happening, judging from your description, is that the text of a footnote was deleted without deleting the (perhaps hidden) footnote reference in the text. The footnote thus remained, albeit empty. Perhaps footnotes are set to be "Below text" rather than at "Bottom of page," but in any case, working in Print Layout view, you (or someone) started typing in the footnote rather than in the document body. All the text from that point forward is now part of the footnote instead of the body text. Naturally, as you add to the footnote, it grows to take up page after page, each one headed with the Footnote Continuation Separator. This may be a little difficult to fix, but here's what I'd suggest: 1. Display all nonprinting characters (including Hidden text) using the Show All command. 2. Display text boundaries (Tools | Options View); this will help you get a better handle on the extent of text areas in the document. 3. Select all the text in the document that follows the original short line. Cut or Copy (I would suggest cutting all but a line or two of the text--leave a little to work with later.) 4. At the end of the last paragraph preceding the short line, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph. 5. Paste the cut/copied text here. 6. This is where it's going to get tricky. Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to open the footnote pane. When you place the insertion point in the footnote text, the footnote reference mark should be on the top line of the document text displayed above. With luck, you should be able to find it and delete it (even if it's formatted as Hidden, it should be displayed since you have Hidden text displayed. If so, select it and delete it. 7. If that doesn't work, close the footnote pane and use Edit | Go To to go to Footnote. If there's something there, Word may be able to find it. If it does, even if you can't see the reference mark, select a few characters on either side of the insertion point and delete. Then retype the visible text characters. 8. If that doesn't work, select the entire line where the footnote reference mark must be, delete it, and retype. 9. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas! You'll have to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" bud wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - Your descriptions sounds like it would meet all of the symptoms. The document does hae endnotes. I'll just substitute that in your instructions in place of footnotes and have a go. Thaqnks for the quick response. |
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Ah, even more likely; someone has typed text into the Endnotes.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you describe sounds like a Footnote Separator. When you force it to the next page, you get a Footnote Continuation Separator. This indicates that you have a footnote in the document. What I think is happening, judging from your description, is that the text of a footnote was deleted without deleting the (perhaps hidden) footnote reference in the text. The footnote thus remained, albeit empty. Perhaps footnotes are set to be "Below text" rather than at "Bottom of page," but in any case, working in Print Layout view, you (or someone) started typing in the footnote rather than in the document body. All the text from that point forward is now part of the footnote instead of the body text. Naturally, as you add to the footnote, it grows to take up page after page, each one headed with the Footnote Continuation Separator. This may be a little difficult to fix, but here's what I'd suggest: 1. Display all nonprinting characters (including Hidden text) using the Show All command. 2. Display text boundaries (Tools | Options View); this will help you get a better handle on the extent of text areas in the document. 3. Select all the text in the document that follows the original short line. Cut or Copy (I would suggest cutting all but a line or two of the text--leave a little to work with later.) 4. At the end of the last paragraph preceding the short line, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph. 5. Paste the cut/copied text here. 6. This is where it's going to get tricky. Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to open the footnote pane. When you place the insertion point in the footnote text, the footnote reference mark should be on the top line of the document text displayed above. With luck, you should be able to find it and delete it (even if it's formatted as Hidden, it should be displayed since you have Hidden text displayed. If so, select it and delete it. 7. If that doesn't work, close the footnote pane and use Edit | Go To to go to Footnote. If there's something there, Word may be able to find it. If it does, even if you can't see the reference mark, select a few characters on either side of the insertion point and delete. Then retype the visible text characters. 8. If that doesn't work, select the entire line where the footnote reference mark must be, delete it, and retype. 9. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas! You'll have to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" bud wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - Your descriptions sounds like it would meet all of the symptoms. The document does hae endnotes. I'll just substitute that in your instructions in place of footnotes and have a go. Thaqnks for the quick response. |
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ah, even more likely; someone has typed text into the Endnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you describe sounds like a Footnote Separator. When you force it to the next page, you get a Footnote Continuation Separator. This indicates that you have a footnote in the document. What I think is happening, judging from your description, is that the text of a footnote was deleted without deleting the (perhaps hidden) footnote reference in the text. The footnote thus remained, albeit empty. Perhaps footnotes are set to be "Below text" rather than at "Bottom of page," but in any case, working in Print Layout view, you (or someone) started typing in the footnote rather than in the document body. All the text from that point forward is now part of the footnote instead of the body text. Naturally, as you add to the footnote, it grows to take up page after page, each one headed with the Footnote Continuation Separator. This may be a little difficult to fix, but here's what I'd suggest: 1. Display all nonprinting characters (including Hidden text) using the Show All command. 2. Display text boundaries (Tools | Options View); this will help you get a better handle on the extent of text areas in the document. 3. Select all the text in the document that follows the original short line. Cut or Copy (I would suggest cutting all but a line or two of the text--leave a little to work with later.) 4. At the end of the last paragraph preceding the short line, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph. 5. Paste the cut/copied text here. 6. This is where it's going to get tricky. Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to open the footnote pane. When you place the insertion point in the footnote text, the footnote reference mark should be on the top line of the document text displayed above. With luck, you should be able to find it and delete it (even if it's formatted as Hidden, it should be displayed since you have Hidden text displayed. If so, select it and delete it. 7. If that doesn't work, close the footnote pane and use Edit | Go To to go to Footnote. If there's something there, Word may be able to find it. If it does, even if you can't see the reference mark, select a few characters on either side of the insertion point and delete. Then retype the visible text characters. 8. If that doesn't work, select the entire line where the footnote reference mark must be, delete it, and retype. 9. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas! You'll have to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" bud wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - Your descriptions sounds like it would meet all of the symptoms. The document does hae endnotes. I'll just substitute that in your instructions in place of footnotes and have a go. Thaqnks for the quick response. As Dizzy Dean said, "It ain't braggin' if'n you kin do it!" and you did it. We had 30 some pages of end-notes. Thanks muchly. - bud - |
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Well, thanks for your very detailed and accurate description of the problem.
I don't always have the patience to read that much detail, but this one piqued my curiosity, and your accurate description of the appearance of the "lines" created a very clear picture in my head that immediately said "Footnote Separator." At that point, it was obvious that the rest of the symptoms matched this solution exactly! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" wrote in message news "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Ah, even more likely; someone has typed text into the Endnotes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" wrote in message ... "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: What you describe sounds like a Footnote Separator. When you force it to the next page, you get a Footnote Continuation Separator. This indicates that you have a footnote in the document. What I think is happening, judging from your description, is that the text of a footnote was deleted without deleting the (perhaps hidden) footnote reference in the text. The footnote thus remained, albeit empty. Perhaps footnotes are set to be "Below text" rather than at "Bottom of page," but in any case, working in Print Layout view, you (or someone) started typing in the footnote rather than in the document body. All the text from that point forward is now part of the footnote instead of the body text. Naturally, as you add to the footnote, it grows to take up page after page, each one headed with the Footnote Continuation Separator. This may be a little difficult to fix, but here's what I'd suggest: 1. Display all nonprinting characters (including Hidden text) using the Show All command. 2. Display text boundaries (Tools | Options View); this will help you get a better handle on the extent of text areas in the document. 3. Select all the text in the document that follows the original short line. Cut or Copy (I would suggest cutting all but a line or two of the text--leave a little to work with later.) 4. At the end of the last paragraph preceding the short line, press Enter to create a new empty paragraph. 5. Paste the cut/copied text here. 6. This is where it's going to get tricky. Switch to Normal view and use View | Footnotes to open the footnote pane. When you place the insertion point in the footnote text, the footnote reference mark should be on the top line of the document text displayed above. With luck, you should be able to find it and delete it (even if it's formatted as Hidden, it should be displayed since you have Hidden text displayed. If so, select it and delete it. 7. If that doesn't work, close the footnote pane and use Edit | Go To to go to Footnote. If there's something there, Word may be able to find it. If it does, even if you can't see the reference mark, select a few characters on either side of the insertion point and delete. Then retype the visible text characters. 8. If that doesn't work, select the entire line where the footnote reference mark must be, delete it, and retype. 9. If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas! You'll have to see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/CorruptDoc.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "bud i" bud wrote in message ... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...tRidOfLine.htm . wanttoknow wrote: I have read "There is a line in my document that I can't delete because I can't select it. How did it get there, and what can I do about it? Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rad" and several other posts with no success. I am running Office XP under XP Home Edition. I am editing a clients Word document that contains that domineering Horizontal Line so popular in these messages. I have tried the Control + Q, ensuring there is no Border selected on the previous paragraph, and disabling the Auto Format As You Type to no avail. Let me list the symptoms. 1) A two inch line exists about 2 inches from the bottom of the 6th page. 2) A quarter inch wide box surrounds the line if Format Characters is displayed. 3) If I insert CRs in front of it until it auto pages, it becomes a full width line. 4) The line appears to be part of the header, as it is at the top of all subsequent pages. 5) When headers are displayed, those on page 7 and following expand an additional ¼ inch to include it. 6) I have no information in any header, but do have a short line and page number in the footer. 7) It disappears if the text is hidden. 8) I cant select it. I also tried selecting CRs above and below it, but got bleeped. 9) Cant insert a page break with Control + Enter in page 7 and all following. The insert menu has grayed out Break, Page Numbers, Comments, Diagrams, and Text Box. 10) When I click on the line, the cursor is displayed on the following line of text. 11) I have also tried the anti-formatting and Control + Q thing on the preceding Headers and Footers. Sighhhhhhh! I am now awaiting your magic wand to tell me what I have done did or didn't done. - bud i - Your descriptions sounds like it would meet all of the symptoms. The document does hae endnotes. I'll just substitute that in your instructions in place of footnotes and have a go. Thaqnks for the quick response. As Dizzy Dean said, "It ain't braggin' if'n you kin do it!" and you did it. We had 30 some pages of end-notes. Thanks muchly. - bud - |
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