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Article contributed by Suzanne Barnhill and Dave Rado Although there are other possibilities, most likely what you're dealing with is the paragraph border that Word creates when you type three or more hyphens (-), underscore characters (_), equals signs (=),asterisks (*), tildes (~), or hash signs (#), and press Enter. Unless you have cleared the “Borders” check box on the AutoFormat As You Type tab of Tools | AutoCorrect, these characters are converted to a thin, thick, double, broken, zigzag, or thick-and-thin border at the bottom of a paragraph. To make matters more confusing, this border is applied to the paragraph before the one where you typed the hyphens, underscores, or equals signs. To remove this “line,” select the paragraph above it and, in Format | Borders and Shading, choose None; or click the down arrow beside the Borders button on the toolbar and choose the last (No Border) option in the palette. Alternatively, you can simply click in the offending paragraph and press Ctrl+Q, which resets the paragraph formatting to the default for the style. Note: If you've pressed Enter several times trying to get rid of the line, you will merely have applied the border formatting to all the paragraphs you added, as well as to the original one. This won't be obvious, because when several consecutive paragraphs have the same “border below” formatting applied to them, the border only appears below the last of them. So If you then remove the Border formatting from the paragraph that has the line below it, the line will move up one paragraph. The trick is to select all the affected paragraphs and either press Ctrl+Q or choose No Border. It is a good idea to turn off most of the options on the “AutoFormat” and “AutoFormat As You Type” tabs of Tools | AutoCorrect. For more details, see Word is always making changes I don't expect. How can I get more control over my formatting? |
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