If you turn off Track Changes and Accept All Changes in Document, you should
lose the change bars.

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Well, on second thought......they (those verticals) keep coming back even
after I save the file.

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Are these in the text or in the margin? If in the text (and not font
characters), they might be bar tabs (remove them through the Tabs dialog
or
the ruler). If in the margin, they might be change bars, in which case
they
can be removed by accepting all changes.

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"ray9257" wrote in message
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How to get rid of short verticle lines in a word document