I am getting those dotted lines as well after using an asterik to make a line. However, I am not able to get rid of them. Any suggestions?
Thank you,
Vickie Tuck
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
That's assuming it is not just a page break.--Suzanne S.
08-Feb-10
That's assuming it is not just a page break.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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On Monday, February 08, 2010 5:26 AM
Marcus M wrote:
Dotted line to remove
I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has
made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin.
Whatever I do to try to remove it does not seem to work. The line was not in
the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it.
The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more
fiddly than the older version I have used for years.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thank You.
On Monday, February 08, 2010 5:30 AM
Graham Mayor wrote:
See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.
See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
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On Monday, February 08, 2010 9:29 AM
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
That's assuming it is not just a page break.--Suzanne S.
That's assuming it is not just a page break.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
On Monday, February 08, 2010 11:37 AM
Marcus M wrote:
Thank you both for your prompt response.
Thank you both for your prompt response.
Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it does not work for me.
Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page
breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help?
Regards
Marcus
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
On Monday, February 08, 2010 1:31 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
"Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when
"Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you
have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are
displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the
center.
But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several
successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 2:14 PM
Marcus M wrote:
Hello again,The position now is this.
Hello again,
The position now is this.
I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through
all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving
what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30
page story that is as I wrote it.
However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem.
At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene
change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a
dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo
typing' icon.
I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks
- left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared.
That may help you both in future with some other questioner.
So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on
the cause.
Many thanks for your help.
Regards to you both.
Marcus.
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:25 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to(
http://word.mvps.
If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to
(
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm) and followed the
directions there, then you would already have known this and would long
since have solved the problem.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 5:25 PM
Gordon wrote:
Works OK here...
Works OK here...
On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:09 PM
Terry Farrell wrote:
Works here too...--Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
Works here too...
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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP
On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 7:05 PM
Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
The site was down earlier today; it is back up now.--Suzanne S.
The site was down earlier today; it is back up now.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
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