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How to Get Rid of a Horizontal Line in Microsoft Word

This wikiHow teaches you how to remove a border line in Microsoft Word that you may have inadvertently created by typing three hyphens (-), underscores (_), equal signs (=), or asterisks (*), and pressing 'return.' Click in the row...

Method 1 of 3:

Highlighting and Deleting

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    Click in the row immediately above the unwanted line. If there is any text immediately above the line, select the entire row above the line.
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    Drag the cursor to the row immediately below the unwanted line. The left end of the line will be highlighted.
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    Press delete. In many versions of Word, doing so will remove the line.
Method 2 of 3:

Using the Home Tab Shortcut

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    Click in the row immediately above the unwanted line. If there is any text immediately above the line, select the entire row above the line.
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    Drag the cursor to the row immediately below the unwanted line. The left end of the line will be highlighted.
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    Click the Home tab at the top of the screen.
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    Click the "Borders and Shading" icon. It's a square divided into four panes in the "Paragraph" section of the ribbon.
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    Click No Borders. The border line will disappear.
Method 3 of 3:

Using the Page Borders Dialog

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    Click in the row immediately above the unwanted line. If there is any text immediately above the line, select the entire row above the line.
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    Drag the cursor to the row immediately below the unwanted line. The left end of the line will be highlighted.
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    Click the Design tab at the top of the window.
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    Click Page Borders in the upper-right corner of the window.
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    Click the Borders tab at the top of the dialog box.
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    Click None in the left pane.
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    Click OK. The border line will disappear.

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