Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!

You can use a paragraph border. Simply place the cursor in the paragraph
which should have a border below it, and then do the following: On the
Format menu, click Borders and Shading. Click the Borders tab. Make sure
"Apply to" is "Paragraph". Pick a "Style", a "Width" and a "Color" of
your border. To insert it, click below the paragraph in the preview
picture, and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Peter" wrote in message ...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing
here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!

Thanks Stefan

But it is not a border that I need.

Just a simple line to separate , say one paragraph from another.

I am sure in the past, I simply drew a line from the "Drawing Toolbar", but
now I can't get it to work.


"Stefan Blom" escreveu na mensagem
...
You can use a paragraph border. Simply place the cursor in the paragraph
which should have a border below it, and then do the following: On the
Format menu, click Borders and Shading. Click the Borders tab. Make sure
"Apply to" is "Paragraph". Pick a "Style", a "Width" and a "Color" of
your border. To insert it, click below the paragraph in the preview
picture, and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Peter" wrote in message ...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing
here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!

Peter,
Try using horizontal line, you can find it in the borders and tables
toolbar, click on the arrow next to the button which lets you apply borders,
right at the edge there is a button called horizontal line (that's what it
is called in the Dutch version). If you apply that you will get a horizontal
line, you can format it by double clicking on it, you can change colour,
height and position.
Luc
"Peter" schreef in bericht
...
Thanks Stefan

But it is not a border that I need.

Just a simple line to separate , say one paragraph from another.

I am sure in the past, I simply drew a line from the "Drawing Toolbar",
but
now I can't get it to work.


"Stefan Blom" escreveu na mensagem
...
You can use a paragraph border. Simply place the cursor in the paragraph
which should have a border below it, and then do the following: On the
Format menu, click Borders and Shading. Click the Borders tab. Make sure
"Apply to" is "Paragraph". Pick a "Style", a "Width" and a "Color" of
your border. To insert it, click below the paragraph in the preview
picture, and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Peter" wrote in message ...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing
here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!

I believe you can dismiss the drawing canvas with Escape. You can also
disable it entirely on the General tab of Tools | Options.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Peter" wrote in message
...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:38:46 +0200 in
microsoft.public.word.newusers, Peter favored us with...
I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

"Divide text", between two paragraphs?

Select one paragraph, click Format - Borders and Shading.

Be sure to select "Apply to: Paragraph" in lower right.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of
evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world
where three out of four people have learned to read and write."
--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46

"Peter" wrote in message
...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.

Something seems to have gone haywire here!
help!

For a single line, type a dash (-) three times (---) in a row and hit enter.

What's easy or not is a matter of personal preferences, I guess. To me,
a border seems a lot easier than inserting a drawing object for the
purpose you described in your original message.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Peter" wrote in message ...
Thanks Stefan

But it is not a border that I need.

Just a simple line to separate , say one paragraph from another.

I am sure in the past, I simply drew a line from the "Drawing
Toolbar", but
now I can't get it to work.


"Stefan Blom" escreveu na mensagem
...
You can use a paragraph border. Simply place the cursor in the
paragraph
which should have a border below it, and then do the following: On
the
Format menu, click Borders and Shading. Click the Borders tab. Make
sure
"Apply to" is "Paragraph". Pick a "Style", a "Width" and a "Color"
of
your border. To insert it, click below the paragraph in the preview
picture, and then click OK.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Peter" wrote in message
...
Word 2002

I am trying to place a simple and single line to divide text.

I go to View/Toolbars/Drawing



And when I choose Line I get a big box saying "Create your drawing
here".



LineStyle is greyed out and does not allow me a choice.



Something seems to have gone haywire here!



help!