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Dotted line to remove
I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has
made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. |
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That's assuming it's not just a page break.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. |
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Thank you both for your prompt response.
Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . |
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"Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you
have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . |
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Hello again,
The position now is this. I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30 page story that is as I wrote it. However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem. At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo typing' icon. I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks - left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared. That may help you both in future with some other questioner. So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on the cause. Many thanks for your help. Regards to you both. Marcus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . . |
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If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to
(http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm) and followed the directions there, then you would already have known this and would long since have solved the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Hello again, The position now is this. I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30 page story that is as I wrote it. However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem. At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo typing' icon. I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks - left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared. That may help you both in future with some other questioner. So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on the cause. Many thanks for your help. Regards to you both. Marcus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . . |
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On Feb 9, 3:25*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm) and followed the directions there, then you would already have known this and would long since have solved the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Hello again, The position now is this. I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30 page story that is as I wrote it. However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem. At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo typing' icon. I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks - left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared. That may help you both in future with some other questioner. So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on the cause. Many thanks for your help. Regards to you both. Marcus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. *Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message .. . Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . . Don't know if it is just for me, but both the link in your post and the link in an earlier post gets somewhere, then gets redirected and then shows a 4040 page error (or at least a soft 4040 that Google intercepts). |
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"MikeB" wrote in message ... Don't know if it is just for me, but both the link in your post and the link in an earlier post gets somewhere, then gets redirected and then shows a 4040 page error (or at least a soft 4040 that Google intercepts). Works OK here... |
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Works here too...
-- Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP "MikeB" wrote in message ... On Feb 9, 3:25 pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: If you had actually read the article Graham referred you to (http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm) and followed the directions there, then you would already have known this and would long since have solved the problem. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Hello again, The position now is this. I tried again and followed all your recommendations and also went through all the Help answers in Word. No success so I did it the hard way, by saving what I could, retyping the faulty bits and merged them so I now have a 30 page story that is as I wrote it. However, doing this I stumbled across what caused the problem. At one point I inserted *** between paragraphs as a marker denoting a scene change in what I wrote. I centred (UK spelling) the break and immediately a dotted line appeared. I was able to remove it by clicking on the 'undo typing' icon. I experimented further and found that anytime I put in 3 or more * asterisks - left, right or centre made no difference - the line appeared. That may help you both in future with some other questioner. So, my problem is solved by a combination of re-doing and by stumbling on the cause. Many thanks for your help. Regards to you both. Marcus. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: "Soft" page breaks are displayed (in Normal view) as a dotted line when you have nonprinting characters displayed. "Hard" (manual) page breaks are displayed in all views as a dotted line with the words "Page Break" in the center. But if this dotted line is a border, you may have to remove it from several successive paragraphs before you get rid of it entirely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" wrote in message ... Thank you both for your prompt response. Graham: I have followed the link you sent - it doesn't work for me. Suzanne: I see you as one of the co-authors. I recall I was looking at page breaks when the line first appeared. Does that help? Regards Marcus "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: That's assuming it's not just a page break. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message .. . Seehttp://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org "Marcus M" Marcus M @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message ... I have just been editing a multi-page word document and something I did has made a dotted line appear. It goes across the page from margin to margin. Whatever I do to try to remove it doesn't seem to work. The line was not in the original so some I assume some key or setting I have touched has done it. The Word I am using is MS Office Word 2007 - something I find is a lot more fiddly than the older version I have used for years. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You. . . Don't know if it is just for me, but both the link in your post and the link in an earlier post gets somewhere, then gets redirected and then shows a 4040 page error (or at least a soft 4040 that Google intercepts). |
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