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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
Im using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template Id just created. At
some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. Ive look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. Ive run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
The settings for change bars are on the Track Changes tab of Tools |
Options, but if Track Changes is turned off, that should not be what it is. -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... Im using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template Id just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. Ive look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. Ive run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
OK, I found the setting for change bars (didn't see it the previous times I
opened that window). I set the "Changed lines" setting to "none." No effect in the document. Also, the vertical gray bars do not show up in a printout. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The settings for change bars are on the Track Changes tab of Tools | Options, but if Track Changes is turned off, that should not be what it is. -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... Im using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template Id just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. Ive look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. Ive run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
It sounds like a drawing in a header. If you view headers and footers (a)
does it become black rather than grey and (b) can you select and delete it? -- Enjoy, Tony "kmewing" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template I'd just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. I've look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. I've run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
If it doesn't print, could it be just text boundaries (Tools | Options |
View) ? But you'd see those all the way around your page. If you're in Normal view, it could be the style area set very narrow (also on the View tab). -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... OK, I found the setting for change bars (didn't see it the previous times I opened that window). I set the "Changed lines" setting to "none." No effect in the document. Also, the vertical gray bars do not show up in a printout. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The settings for change bars are on the Track Changes tab of Tools | Options, but if Track Changes is turned off, that should not be what it is. -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... Im using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template Id just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. Ive look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. Ive run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
Checked the settings as you suggested. No boundaries are turned on. Under
"Formatting marks" I unchecked everything and there was no effect on the gray bars. Also, the gray bars only show up in print view. Further details: The gray bars showed up after I had pasted a large block of text from another Word file. The file from which this text came was an old file that's been circulated for a long time. It was used as an informal "template" to generate a boilerplate document. The numbering had gotten messed up, so I created a brand new "real" Word template with simplified numbering based on paragraph styles. Before copying the text from the original document, I cleared all the numbering out of the paragraphs. Then I copied the text (about 60 pages worth), pasted it in a new document based on the new template, and was recreating the numbering when the gray bars appeared. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If it doesn't print, could it be just text boundaries (Tools | Options | View) ? But you'd see those all the way around your page. If you're in Normal view, it could be the style area set very narrow (also on the View tab). -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... OK, I found the setting for change bars (didn't see it the previous times I opened that window). I set the "Changed lines" setting to "none." No effect in the document. Also, the vertical gray bars do not show up in a printout. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The settings for change bars are on the Track Changes tab of Tools | Options, but if Track Changes is turned off, that should not be what it is. -- 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. "kmewing" wrote in message ... Im using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template Id just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. Ive look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. Ive run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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Vertical gray bar down left margin. Why?
I had tried that. When I view headers & footers, the gray bar remains gray
and doesn't select when I click on it. One of my other postings has more details on how this document was created if you want more information. Thanks. "Tony Jollans" wrote: It sounds like a drawing in a header. If you view headers and footers (a) does it become black rather than grey and (b) can you select and delete it? -- Enjoy, Tony "kmewing" wrote in message ... I'm using Word 2003. I opened a brand new template I'd just created. At some point during my editing a vertical gray bar appeared in the left margin. It goes the entire length of the page and appears on every page. It looks like a change bar. I've look high and low in Word for a setting for change bars and found none. I scoured Word Help for an entry on change bars and found none. I have verified that Markup and Track Changes are turned off. I've run out of ideas. Can anyone give me one? Thanks. |
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