Saw this post in the windows XP-General newsgroup and it piqued my curiosity.
Never realized that Word had this capability. Is there a way in Word 2003 to
accomplish the action described in the original post below? TIA:

At one time my Word program would draw a line across the page if I typed
three underscores , ___ but this no longer works. Is there a setting for it?
Help is appreciated.

This is an AutoFormat As You Type option (in the AutoCorrect dialog
box). For more information, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Uncle Joe" wrote in message
...
Saw this post in the windows XP-General newsgroup and it piqued my
curiosity.
Never realized that Word had this capability. Is there a way in Word
2003 to
accomplish the action described in the original post below? TIA:

At one time my Word program would draw a line across the page if I
typed
three underscores , ___ but this no longer works. Is there a
setting for it?
Help is appreciated.

My Word 2000 does this with three hyphens, then a return - not underscores.

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
This is an AutoFormat As You Type option (in the AutoCorrect dialog
box). For more information, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Uncle Joe" wrote in message
...
Saw this post in the windows XP-General newsgroup and it piqued my
curiosity.
Never realized that Word had this capability. Is there a way in Word
2003 to
accomplish the action described in the original post below? TIA:

At one time my Word program would draw a line across the page if I
typed
three underscores , ___ but this no longer works. Is there a
setting for it?
Help is appreciated.

Try it with three underscores, different kind of border is all.
See http://www.addbalance.com/word/borders.htm for more on this and the
different characters you can use to make different borders.
_____ ----- ======== ++++++ ***** ~~~~~
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"bagwash" wrote in message
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My Word 2000 does this with three hyphens, then a return - not
underscores.

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
...
This is an AutoFormat As You Type option (in the AutoCorrect dialog
box). For more information, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tRidOfLine.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Uncle Joe" wrote in message
...
Saw this post in the windows XP-General newsgroup and it piqued my
curiosity.
Never realized that Word had this capability. Is there a way in Word
2003 to
accomplish the action described in the original post below? TIA:

At one time my Word program would draw a line across the page if I
typed
three underscores , ___ but this no longer works. Is there a
setting for it?
Help is appreciated.

See http://addbalance.com/word/borders.htm.
_____ ----- ======== ++++++ ***** ~~~~~ will all do something if this
setting is on.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Uncle Joe" wrote in message
...
Saw this post in the windows XP-General newsgroup and it piqued my
curiosity.
Never realized that Word had this capability. Is there a way in Word 2003
to
accomplish the action described in the original post below? TIA:

At one time my Word program would draw a line across the page if I typed
three underscores , ___ but this no longer works. Is there a setting for
it?
Help is appreciated.