15 Essential Microsoft Word 2010 Tips for Beginners
How to Fight Back When Word Draws a Line Across the Page Maybe it's happened to you. It's certainly happened to someone you know. You're typing in Word, and you type a series of dashes or hyphens—and suddenly Word's autoformat feature inserts a horizontal line across the page, and you can't get rid of it. You can't select it; you can't delete it. Some victims of this feature simply abandon the document with the line and start a new one instead. Here's how to get rid of that line. Word has inserted a border at the bottom of the current paragraph. To remove it, click inside the paragraph; to the Home tab and click on the Borders icon at the lower right of the Paragraph group. On the pop-up menu, the first item—Bottom Border—will be selected. Click on No Border, and the border will disappear. You can prevent these borders from appearing by going to File, Options, AutoCorrect Options, then choose the AutoFormat as You Type tab, and in the section "Apply as you type," remove the checkmark next to Border Lines.
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