Horizontal lines in Microsoft Office Word documents are used as text formatting elements. There are several ways to create these elements, including the program itself may decide to insert a line, for example, if the user put several dashes in a row and pressed Enter. The operation of removing such lines often becomes a puzzle, since it is completely incomprehensible to which piece of text Word has applied formatting: to a line, a paragraph, a page, or an entire document.
Instructions
Step 1
Place the insertion cursor on the line in front of the horizontal line and open the drop-down list in the application menu with options for the design of paragraph borders. This is the very last - bottom right - icon in the Paragraph group of commands on the Home tab. In the list of options, select "No border", after which the line should disappear. If this does not happen, repeat the operation by moving the input cursor one line below - below the horizontal line.
Step 2
The first step describes how to remove a line that is part of the design of a paragraph, but it may turn out to be part of the page formatting. In this case, as in the previous one, place the cursor over the line, but use a different control from the table editor menu. It has been placed in the Page Background command group of the Page Layout tab and marked with Page Borders. Click on this label and Word will open a separate window made up of three tabs. On the "Page" tab, click on the icon with the caption "no" in the "Type" column. Then go to the "Border" tab and do the same - select the same icon labeled "no" in the left column "Type". Then click OK and make sure the line was deleted. If this does not happen again, go to drastic measures.
Step 3
If there is no other choice, undo the formatting in the entire edited document. Select all the text by selecting the All Text item in the Select drop-down list of the Editing command group on the Home tab or by pressing the Ctrl + A keyboard shortcut. Immediately after the dividing line between this command group and the adjacent Styles, next to labeled "Editing", there is a small button that opens a separate window "Styles" - click on it. Select the topmost line in the list of styles - "Clear All" - and close the window. As a result, Word should remove all text formatting elements, including horizontal lines.
