Can't Get Rid of Horizontal Lines! Strange Printing Errors.

I'm working in a 30-40 page document in which I beleive I
typed consecutive dashes at one time. The auto format
turned these dashes into a horizontal line, something I
needed at the time. But now that I no longer need the
division, I can't seem to delete the line. What's more,
it is acting indepentantly of the rest of the text. I
cannot select it, delete it or move it, and it has a
tendancy of replicating itself on various pages, usually
at the bottom. If I select it with the mouse, I am able
to move it up and down about half an inch, but nothing
further. I've tried copying just the text and
transporting it to a new document, but the lines always
come with it, despite not selecting them.
Also, when I recently printed the document, the bottoms
of pages that clearly show on the screen do not appear on
the paper. They don't appear cut off, as the margins seem
to line up. But in the middle of the text, it will simply
jump a few paragraphs down. Other times, it will repeat
the last paragraph of the previous page on the next page.
These printing problems only occur towards the end of the
document, where the ghostly horizontal lines lurk,
disappear, and reappear. I suspect the problems are
related.
Have I unwittingly created some sort of page break, or
header/footer? I just want to get rid of the darn things
and have normally formatted document.

Thanks for any input!

-Matt

The line is a border applied beneath the paragraph. Select, go to Format
Borders and Shading, set borders to None.




"gumboots3" wrote in message
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I'm working in a 30-40 page document in which I beleive I
typed consecutive dashes at one time. The auto format
turned these dashes into a horizontal line, something I
needed at the time. But now that I no longer need the
division, I can't seem to delete the line. What's more,
it is acting indepentantly of the rest of the text. I
cannot select it, delete it or move it, and it has a
tendancy of replicating itself on various pages, usually
at the bottom. If I select it with the mouse, I am able
to move it up and down about half an inch, but nothing
further. I've tried copying just the text and
transporting it to a new document, but the lines always
come with it, despite not selecting them.
Also, when I recently printed the document, the bottoms
of pages that clearly show on the screen do not appear on
the paper. They don't appear cut off, as the margins seem
to line up. But in the middle of the text, it will simply
jump a few paragraphs down. Other times, it will repeat
the last paragraph of the previous page on the next page.
These printing problems only occur towards the end of the
document, where the ghostly horizontal lines lurk,
disappear, and reappear. I suspect the problems are
related.
Have I unwittingly created some sort of page break, or
header/footer? I just want to get rid of the darn things
and have normally formatted document.

Thanks for any input!

-Matt

For cause, cure, and prevention, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...tRidOfLine.htm

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"gumboots3" wrote in message
...
I'm working in a 30-40 page document in which I beleive I
typed consecutive dashes at one time. The auto format
turned these dashes into a horizontal line, something I
needed at the time. But now that I no longer need the
division, I can't seem to delete the line. What's more,
it is acting indepentantly of the rest of the text. I
cannot select it, delete it or move it, and it has a
tendancy of replicating itself on various pages, usually
at the bottom. If I select it with the mouse, I am able
to move it up and down about half an inch, but nothing
further. I've tried copying just the text and
transporting it to a new document, but the lines always
come with it, despite not selecting them.
Also, when I recently printed the document, the bottoms
of pages that clearly show on the screen do not appear on
the paper. They don't appear cut off, as the margins seem
to line up. But in the middle of the text, it will simply
jump a few paragraphs down. Other times, it will repeat
the last paragraph of the previous page on the next page.
These printing problems only occur towards the end of the
document, where the ghostly horizontal lines lurk,
disappear, and reappear. I suspect the problems are
related.
Have I unwittingly created some sort of page break, or
header/footer? I just want to get rid of the darn things
and have normally formatted document.

Thanks for any input!

-Matt