Removing the HR Line from Word
It was an annoying bugger that I couldn’t figure out – I was having a problem removing what I thought was the horizontal rule <hr> tag from Microsoft Word. Try as I would… I couldn’t get it to go away; I couldn’t delete it with the delete key nor the backspace key, I couldn’t select it with the cursor… it was driving me mad.
The Problem:
I was using some auto-correct (actually auto-format) feature of Microsoft Word that I really didn’t understand, I would type three underscores (_) and then hit the enter key – the ensuing output seemed to be a horizontal rule.
I’ve come to find out that this auto-format feature actually creates a border for the document, not just a mere horizontal line. I have also come to find out that the instant horizontal line (border) will show up if you use 3 hyphens (-), 3 tildes (~), 3 pound signs (#) or 3 equal signs (=) in a row followed by the enter key. At the time, I was just trying to get rid of it.
The Fix
In earlier versions of Word (maybe 2003 or earlier), several websites state that you must:
- Place your cursor right above the horizontal line
- From your menu choose Format >> Borders and Shading >> None >> Ok
I personally have Word 2007 – and it’s not quite the same… so I cannot verify that the above is 100% correct – but I would imagine it’s spot-on.
Here’s how to do this when you have Microsoft Office Word 2007 (or Word 2007) screenshots:
- Place your cursor directly above the offending line
- From your menu, choose Page Layout
- Once you click on Page Layout, click on Page Borders
- Choose the Borders Tab, in the upper left select None, then hit Ok
- The line should disappear
How to turn off the auto-format feature for borders
If you’ve accidentally created one of these horizontal lines, you can fix it so that this mistake doesn’t happen again. I’ve created screenshots of how to shut this auto-format feature off.
Step 1
Click on the lightning-bolt box near the newly created horizontal line:
Step 2
Choose “Control AutoFormat Options”:
Step 3
Untick the “Border Lines” checkbox:
Hit “OK” – you’re done!
Remove the horizontal line in Word 2007 screenshots
These screenshots follow the steps above..
Step 1
Place your cursor directly above the problematic line:
Step 2
Choose “Page Layout” from your menu:
Step 3
Choose the “Page Borders” sub-heading under Page Layout:
Step 4
Select the “Borders” tab:
Step 5
Under “setting”, select “None”:
Hit “OK” – You’re done!
I hope that this little tutorial has helped some of you – I know that this problem was quite a pain for me… and using the above steps is how I fixed it.
Update May, 2009
This “removing the line from MS word” tutorial has been viewed 10s of thousands of times since I wrote it last year, and it has helped hundreds at least, I’m assuming, to fix what appears to be a very common problem for Word users. Based on the enormous amount of traffic this page receives, a lot of people struggle with this nagging line/border/table thing.
Now, I ask nothing in return — this is here for you to benefit from. However, if you would like to visit Amazon.com and purchase something via this link – I certainly wouldn’t be opposed to it. 
If this tutorial helped you out, feel free to leave a comment, and thanks for stopping by.
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Thank you so much for that tip! I was so annoyed by that stupid line!
I have the ‘horizontal line’ problem in using Word 2007 in compatibility mode – but neither the suggestion for Word 97 or 2007 works for me. My line happens to be in a cell within a table – just to complicate matters, so when I try your suggestion – all the borders of my table disappear but my unwanted line is still there – bold as ever. Any suggestions?
thanks, I needed that tip! it had been driving me nuts!
Thank you so much for sharing the info, that line was driving me crazy
Thanks… I was really helpful for me while spending a lot of time with this stupid Microsoft word
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THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!! I spent hours trying to figure out that stupid line in microsoft word!
Thanks a bunch! That line was driving me nuts and ended up retyping half a page into another document. I also highlighted the offending row and clicking the [Borders] button from the [Paragraph] group on the [Home] tab and selecting [None]. That might do the trick for lines showing up inside of tables–have not proven it though. Thanks again!
Thank you. Very helpful.
This fix of clicking “none” on the borders and shading menu worked for a few of the lines on my Word document, however, now it just seems to be shifting the line up one line of text higher. For some reason, I also appear to have a line at the bottom of most of my pages. Any suggestions for permanently remove these lines from my document?
Thanks
thanks. It was also driving me nuts. It isn’t very practical and easy to remove a simple line…
Thank you! That was driving me nuts.
Thanks for this.
This is excellent information!!!
However, Microsoft (Word especially) has ways of challenging users in new ways.
This sticky line has somehow entered the footer section. Any suggestions on how to get rid of that?
I have Word 2007 and I’m not quite sure what type of line you have in your footer, but you can try this:
Double click in the footer area of your Word document. When the footer “opens”, on the menu bar area above, you’ll see ‘header’ and ‘footer’ to the left. Click on ‘footer’, then look at the bottom when the new window pops up and click on ‘remove footer’.
At this point, you can either add a different footer or just click somewhere within the body of the document to close the footer editor.
If this doesn’t work for you, I’m not sure what else to suggest. I use Word every single day, but like a lot of other people – I have to rely on search engines to find the answers to my problems for these quirks… I’m glad you found the post on my site helpful, though.
thank you sooo much!! i had started writing a story, and these stupid little things kept popping up all over the place. Now I can correct it all to look like it makes sense!
Didn’t work for me. Not sure what kind of line mine is, but Word won’t even let me put my curser right above it. Any suggestions?
Thank you so very much!!!!! I was about to take a hammer to my monitor here. I couldn’t take it anymore. What an annoying thing to see those lines and not be able to erase them. Thank you once again.
Yeap, thanks for the tip, just had an annoying line removed !
That was driving me crazy, thank you so much!
Not working for me either, and my stupid lines are made up of a bunch of little squares.
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. You made me so happy! Oh my god, I’d really hot tempered and that thing was driving me crazy. Thanks a ton!
Thanks a bunch! This has been a pain in my butt for awhile now! Figured it was something stupid like this too!
Thank you guy! 5 more minutes trying to figure out how to remove this stupid line and I thought I would be able to thow my computer out of the window! =D
Thank you very much. It was driving me insane.
Thanks so much!!!
You saved my life!
Great tip! I had to put cursor BELOW the line to make it work, but then it did.
Thought I was going crazy — some of these tips worked for me, some didn’t. Some made my line just dance around the page. What ultimately worked for me was selecting the line and a paragraph of text, then selecting the Borders button from the Paragraph section in the Home ribbon and then selecting ‘No Borders.’
Now I plan to ban the use of horizontal lines in the office.
THANK YOU! I sure could not find anything in Word help about this problem. What a relief!
Great tip!
Thanks so much
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Those lines have been annoying me for ages. Thank you so much.
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Thanks a lot for sharing the solution!! This bug is really annoying.
THANK you so so so so much. This thing was driving me insane. Only your “put the cursor above the line” tip could save me. Word 2007 is a pain.
Again, thank you!
Muchas gracias
Thank you very much. Office 2007 sucks!
Huge thanks! I was getting really aggravated!
Many thanks!! I just get done with my paper and then there’s a line I can’t delete. I’ve been up all night working on my paper and now a little line thinks it can stop me from finishing???
I THINK NOT!!
Thanks again!!
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fantastic – great help thanks…
Thank you so much, i’m the one who spent time around one hour to remove this line..
Thanks you so much. I have sat here all day fussing with the silly lines. Word 2007 is not user friendly.
Whoever put this info together, You are the best! Thanks very much!!!
Thanks a lot mate, saved me heaps
OMIGOD! I can’t believe I finally found the answer to this. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I have a manuscript I’m trying to get ready to submit and when I edited anything, and wanted to remove one it wouldn’t go away. Stray ones were lurking everywhere! It’ll be a pain in the butt to remove them all this way but at least it works!!!
Thanks again!
Victoria…
Thankyou!!! How I wish I’d never “upgraded” to 2007.
Thank you so much. This also works for Word 2008 for Mac. Very similar procedure.
1-Place the cursor before the Border Line.
2-Select Format –> Borders and Shading …
3-In pop-up window select Borders button, and then select the None icon, as pictured on this website.
You’re the messiah
Thank you so much! I had random lines all over my dissertation that’s due in today and none of the other guides how to tell you to get rid of it in Word 2007.
Many many thanks. This has been driving me insane for quite a while now. Thanks!
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Thank you so much. You saved me a great amount of time. I appreciate your clear writing style and the screenshots. Perfect!
Thanks a lot for this tip…:)
oh god, finally, FINALLY, i managed to get rid of the horizontal line. Thanks to you.
I chose built-in features of 2007 to enter footer with page number but did not want the stupid ass line in certain sections.
You are genious, my friend. Gold star for you!
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Do you have any idea the amount of hours I could have back in my life – had I known this in 2000?
You are a lifesaver thank you.
I am currently working on an extremely important document and this ‘line/border’ had brought me close to breaking point.
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Bless your beautiful brain…. Thanks for posting.
Thank you.
Worked like a dream.
No help at all. The line is IN the header – and i cannot get it to go away
thank you guys… . ur postings really helped to solve the problem which was driving me nuts…. gr888 … keep going….
The very quick and simple way to handle ANY Auto-correct or Auto-format change you didn’t want is to use Control-Z (Command-Z on the Mac) as soon as it happens. Rules change back into dashes, capitalizations you didn’t want revert to the way you typed them, magic numbered lists that format themselves when you hit “Enter,” smiley characters when you wanted the plain
… They all switch back with Control-Z. Edit < Undo also works, but why waste the time. 
Asa designer, I spend a fair amount of time helping people create good looking Word docs: not the keystroke by keystroke tutorials, but the things that make a document look good or look amateur. Microsoft spent a lot of time putting these automated features into Office, but no time at all on when and why you should use them (or not!). So I decided to fill the gap.
I was at my wit’s end! Thank you so much for this site! I tried to copy and transfer my text to another document, but the line would follow.
I do make purchases on Amazon and I will go through your site to make them.
Again, a million thanks!
thank you soooooooooo much! especially for providing 2007 instructions too!
A million thanks!
Oh my god … I didn’t know how many people had the same problem like me.
Despite some very annoying things like the stubborn line, I’m a big fan of Word 2007.
Thanks to inowebmarketing.com we all found the solution within 1 minute instead of spending hours of digging through tons of info first.
Thank you !!
Thank you so very, very much.
Oh, yeah. That works. So simple, yet so dumb. Thanks for the help.
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Thank you so much. This was driving me completely crazy.
Thank you so much
I had a dealine to make and had ths annoying line
Your explananation was very clear and worked!
Thanks a lot again
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Great tip…that line was so annoying…it was easy to fix this that I’m quite embarrassed I couldn’t figure it out…Thanks!
Thank you so very much for the detailed guide. Excellent job.
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Hi, thanks a ton for the tip. This is more of a MS bug than it is a feature.
Thanks so much for showing me how to get rid of that annoying borderline; it was driving me borderline insane!!! lol thanks=)
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for the tip. It only worked for me by selecting all and then changing the Border option.
Thanks Buddy.
Thnak you so much. Google search: “word can’t remove horizontal rule”, you appear first, one-click, one instant-fix. Bliss.
Thank you very much for your big help
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Thanks, saved me 10 minutes of searching
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Thanks so much!
Great stuff. To remove all lines in the document select all text (CTRL-A), and do the same trick as described above. Initially the line just jumped up a row when I tried to remove it.
Thanks, Bob
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Finally! You do good anger-therapy work. It was such a relief to delete those lines!
Thanks a lot! I spent more than half an hour trying to remove that line!
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Thanks! I was about to lose it with this auto-format feature…. your solution worked as stated, much appreciated!
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Wow!!! I have dealt with this many times over the years and finally decided to Google for an answer…LOL! Thank you sooooo much!
Thank a lot.
Useful guide.
It did not work for me until I used Ctrl A to select the entire document. Then your very helpful solution was successful.
To prevent future occurrences I followed a more involved route than your suggestion. If the thunderbolt is not applicable the following will do it.
Tools, Auto correct options, Auto format as you type, unchk the Borders box
after reprinting my essay 8 times and copy and pasting back and forth notepad and word to remove that annoying line, here’s the solution. -sigh-
now i know what to do. =D thanks.
This was a wonderful help. I had the same problem after I cut and paste the line I created and the original line stayed while the new one was created. This is a big help when I did a Google search. Thank you!
Thank you so much! This helped a lot!
Just to reiterate–you are fantastic!
Wow, thanks so much for this GREAT tip! It was driving me nuts, as it has so many others; I, too, spent almost an hour navigating Word menus and searching Help (useless) — as well as trying to copy pieces of the document to a new document only to have the obnoxious line magically reappear. I managed to figure out how to turn off the appropriate AutoFormatting option, but I couldn’t get rid of the last line at the bottom of the page to save my life. The link for your tutorial was one of the first results to appear in Google when I searched (too bad I didn’t try Googling first rather than messing around with Microsoft’s (non-)help). In return, I’d be happy to make my next purchase on Amazon as requested via your link!
You are truly an angel sent from the heavens above.
While this didn’t work for me going to the Page Border menu, it worked, when I used the little button on the main menu (next to the paint bucket). Thank you!!! I was going crazy before I found this.
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Fantastic! Much appreciated
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thanks for posting this, the same problem was driving me nuts! Fixed it quickly with the right tip!
If the line stays within the typing area (Page minus Header & footer area), then the above solution works.
However, if the line (run across the page width) lies in the Footer or Header area, where you can not put a cursor on it, then the above solution does not work. And certainly, it is not part of the footer
Any suggestion
Thanks
Thank you so much, that stupid line was bugging the heck out of me. I like being able to insert a line with the 3 “-”, but could not figure out how to get rid of one I didn’t want. Thank you thank you thank you.
Just as an interesting note for Office 2007, you can also do this from the Home tab. In the paragraph section, there’s a quick border button, similar to the one normally found in Excel. Click on the right side to get the drop down menu, then select “No Border”.
Hallelujah! This problem was driving me insane. Thank you so much.
Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou! I’ve been trying to get rid of that line in a customer doc for days. Worked perfectly in Word 2007.
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yours was the only posting I saw for how to remove this line in Windows 2007. You ROCK!!!
p.s. nice bit of technical writing. Very easy to follow. You could make it a career if it’s not already!
thanksalot!
OK I had to doctor this a bit for my Word 2003:
I had to highlight the entire document, using Edit, then Select All.
Then I did the Format to Borders to none box in settings
and like an ECT
it blew every last blasted line out of my document all at once.
Otherwise the lines were reappearing and jumping around.
Thank you, whoever you are!
In the name of Allah…
Thanks a lot….
I repeatedly tried the above fix(es) to no avail. I finally discovered that what I was dealing with was a footnote separator. The following tip worked like a charm! I wasted 3 hours trying to find a solution for this issue. If anyone has tried the above solutions without any results, click on this link for help:
http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001847_Changing_the_Footnote_Separator.html
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Wow – this is a life saver. I can’t say how annoyed I have been with this stupid, seemingly indestructible line. Thank you.
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Thanks! The word is ABOVE! I finaly get it!
Thank you! It’s these little things that drive my thesis editor crazy.
Thank you!!!!! I was about to lose my mind trying to get rid of that obnoxious line!!!!
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Thanks to you & google!!!
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The only thing that worked for me the last time I found the dreaded line in one of my documents, was to expand the Styles box and delete the style that had the line under it (Word 2007).
Oh, thank you!
I can stop pulling my hair out and wishing I could afford to put my foot through the monitor now!
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Thanks so much!!
Thank you so very much! I’ve never really been able to figure it out and I was working on something very important for my new job and it would not /go away/! You just made my day, thanks again!
This didn’t work for me. THere’s a line under each section of text, but I cant place the cursor right above it, nor can I select it. What a stupid program!
You’re a savior!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Thank u so much for the tip on removing the horizontal line. I have just edited my assignment.
the horizontal CANCER on my Microsoft Word document was very close to making me violent. thank you for the cure
my problem is not a border line. i have entered a line a while back for aesthetic reasons and now i can’t remove it! selecting none on the layout page does nothelp…what do i do???/ this is an urgent problem so i guess nothing will help me soon enough….grrrr
I was googling trying to remove the horizontal line. Knew the above already, but it still will not go away with any protocol.
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it was a real pain in the ass for me for a really long long time!!!
Thank you!
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WOW – hours of struggling with this and all i had to do was find your tip! Thank you!
Thank you Dear i resolved my horizontal line from the way you described Thanks for saving my time
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Thanks, first google hit and problem solved!!! Normally I use LaTeX so I don’t get these problems, but occasionally I have have to use Word
Thanks for the Fix!!!
Still helping people! Thanks.
I was using these lines as a helpful reference for myself – I’m writing a novel, so they would show me where a new episode would begin – and when I hit enter once, it began what became an uncontrollable frenzy of lines and words. it was like a bad nightmare. I had six or seven of these suckers pooling in different areas.
Needless to say, you saved me much frustration as well as the follicles in my head.
Thanks so much!
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HUGE thanks! My husband and I had someone’s document and were trying to update it. Those DUMB lines were everywhere.
Thank you. It’s really helpful!
great! you saved my nerves! thanks
This is exactly what I was looking for to solve this ridiculous feature of Word. Thanks!!!
am i missing something here? how do you select borders at the top of the screen and keep your cursor over the line at the same time?
Thank you! damn line was driving me insane.
thank you a million times over. this problem has been driving me nuts for a while and i had no idea how to fix it.
thanks a bunch!! was pissing me off majorly. Now it is gone. merci, gracias, danke. 8-D
thanks so much. a great help. i spent ages trying to delete this annoying automatic horizontal line. after reading this article i fixed it straight away, thanks again
You saved my day. I was so frustrated with that feature. There are times I like it, but usually it is a real pain. I now know how to get rid of it. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure it out until I remembered all I had to do was google the question. Thanks again for your help.
You saved my life (and my resume).
Thank you!
HUGE thanks!
Thank you so much for that tutorial! It’s a godsend.
I can not thank you enough for posting these instructions! After wasting so much time trying to delete these lines- I really appreciate the information you provided.
Thanks a million. that stupid line almost spoilt my dissertation. God bless.. Thanks again
thank you………
Really very nice graphical tutorial . Thank u.but unfortunately no luck with me .
What I did is I just select the line above and beneath the stupid line and then follow the tricky procedure explained above.
Thanks a lot ……..
tons of thanks… Finally I am able to get rid of it. Very useful guide.
Thanks so much mate, this works well!
When I followed your suggestion it simply moved the line from below where I had the cursor to the line above where I had the cursor. Has anyone any idea what’s causing that, and how to stop it? Many thanks!
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OMG! Thanks so much for the tip! that line was driving me crazy!
Thanks so much!! Can’t believe Microsoft sometimes… well I guess I can!
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That annoying horizontal line has been pestering me and my significant other for too long . . . until today, and . . . because of you. Thank you soooo much for sharing this knowledge with everyone. I am forever grateful, my friend.
Can you believe it? Still solving problems for us two years later.
Thanks! Stop by my blog and drop me a note if you need a fix for anything that annoys you – if I can return the favor, I will. (Ha-ha, even if you type, spammers, I have something for you.)
Cheers,
Mitch
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH THIS LINE FOR HOURS!!!!
Great stuff. Google searched this page easily and quickly learnt how to annihilate the dreaded line.
-cheers
Oh my goodness! Thank you! I’ve been annoyed with that line for months! You’re the first person to help me and make it go away! Thank you!
Thanks! This really helped!
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Thanks for the advice! The line is dead!
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I hasn’t worked. I am desperate. Cannot hand over my doctoral work. Worked on it last 30 hours, actually 40. Nothing! All the tips from the internet were unsuccessful. I have an Office 2003 Student version. I did what you advise, also. Nothing! The lines remained. They are hell, for I cannot print my dissertation with lines in it. neither can I use paragraphs at will from the Index! Please help desert voice
On reflection, I have to reverse my previous e-mail. Your advice does work! You are a veritable Good Samaritan! I will say a prayer for you to the Virgin Mary today. My problem appears to have been that my “none” icon was marked in Polish, as “brak.” This naturally means “it is missing”, and not “none.” The proper word for “none”, in Polish, is ” ?aden”! To tell the truth, I have easily figured that out, and was clikcing on “brak”, all right. The real problem was: the “brak” icon seemed off … but was not! Only accidentally, I tried one more time, and noticed, that “brak” was sometimes more pale than others. With the “brak” in full pallor, remarkably, I removed all the nasty lines just as you said. All this said, you are a genius! You made my day!
I love you for this! This was doing my head in!
Thankks so much!!!!!
Thanks you sooooooooooooooo much! I cant tell you how much that was driving crazy. Seriously crazy. Thanks again.
thanks so much…. solved the problem of random lines in my novel instantly!
enorme merci !!!
Well, I’ve tried all these suggestions, and although I really appreciate your effort, I have not gotten rid of the freaking line! I am using Office 2010 for MAC, and do I feel stupid! It’s been 8 hours already… please help. I need to add a header and footer regarding my Company, and that lines looks un-professional.
Thanks in advance.
P.D.
Dessert voice, you made my day laughing out loud!
WOW – I never knew to do that. Thanks – those horizontal lines drove me crazy!!
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oh thank you so very much for taking the time to explain. Thanks again
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I just got rid of that bugger of a line…
Thank you!!!!
Yes!
Thank you so much! That line was driving me crazy. I’m still using Word 2003 so it was an easy fix per your instructions.
Thank you so much. Was driving me crazy :>
Oh! my god! atlast I could remove that line, irritating me for the last few days. Thank you! Thanks a lot.
Thank you! This has been driving me crazy for ages! ha!
Thanks a lot!!!!
That’s incredible how it was simple to insert that line and how it was difficult to remove it.
Thank you again for sharing your experience on this problem.
THANKS back2myroots (may 7, 2010).
Your simple solutions (Control-A, then Control Q) removed a stubborn line
on which no other solution worked !
Thanks! There were quite a lot of lines on practically every page of my document that were driving me crazy! I was so relieved to find out how to remove them.
Thanks a Lot!!!
Thanks a million! You are a God amongst men! My screen thanks you as well!
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I really didn’t have time to try and figure it out by myself.
Thanx Bob
You’re the best! Thanks so much for the explanation and fix. That was the most annoying feature I’ve come across in a very long time. It’s created accidentally and seemingly impossible to remove.
Oh God thank you guys I was about to break my monitor till I saw this article. it’s really usefull. thanks again!
Great thanks a lot!
It also works in Word 2011 for Mac. The option is located in the ‘Home’ tab under the ‘Paragraph’ section. Click the litte down arrow of the ‘Borders Box’ and select “None’.
Also if you have more unwanted lines in your document, select the entire segment of text and repeat the above.
Thankyou so much – this was driving me insane! It didn’t matter what I tried or thought it might have been caused by, nothing wanted to fix it.
Now I know – who thought that idea up I wonder?
Thanks for sharing.
Fantastic – thanks so much. I have been updating documents that someone else formatted and that line was driving me crazy!
Yup, huge thanks. Very helpful.
I spent an 2 hours on this, then found your solution.
Thank you.
Wow, this makes me feel like an idiot, but it fixed my 2 year old problem! Thank you!
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Thanks!!!!!! Yor rock
Thanks a lot !!!
Thanks for taking the time to write this! In the middle of my dissertation and it was bugging me a lot! God bless. Melanie
Thank you so much for the guide! I was spending a lot of time trying to remove that line. Thanks a lot!
Great tip, was annoying me so much but luckily I resorted to Google early on!
Thanks!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
Well finally!!!! Thanks a lot
Thanks! saved me from writing everything all over again in a new document!
Thanks
many many thanks
Inside me. NOW!
Thank you!!! I’ve been using Word 2007 for 3 years and this “line” just started appearing in old documents. I spent an hour trying to get rid of it — gave up and went to Google!!!
THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks a lot. As with everybody (?250 people!) this was driving me crazy too.
M$ should check you guys out – you’re effective!
THANK YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!! I have spent the whole day trying to remove the line. Didnt realise how much one line can annoy you hehehe.
Thanks heaps!!!
thank you very much…..
big help for me…
Thank you!
Thanks so much! So glad I found your website and solution!
Got rid of the stupid line! Thanks! MS you owe me 5 minutes of life.
Thanks for sharing the procedure. But I could not delete a line I had created so tried some other simple procedure.
This is applicable to Windows 7
Place the cursor just above the irritating line – click on Home (icon next to Insert)- in the third box in the line where you see icons for numbering etc, at the base there in a smaller box you see fill and border box – when you place the cursor over the line – this box should get highlighted- click for options, and select no border and click ok.
thank u
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I’ve been fighting with this annoying line for many years now. Nothing worked until now. THANKS AGAIN!
Thanks.
!!! Thank you sooooo much. Better help than MS.
THANK YOU so so much!
Thanks! It worked.
Thank you.
Omfgosh, Thank you so so much! It had been annoying the crap out of me! I even came to the desperate measure of copying and pasting my work onto a new document!–with no luck obviously. *sighs*
THANK YOU this was driving me up a wall and I was about to hit something. Thank you so. much.
I have been trying to figure this out on my own, and never could do it. Thanks for putting this here for us to read. You just saved me a ton of time, when your on a deadline, you don’t have the time to figure things like this on your own.
Thanks again for the read. I Did It!!!
You are my hero!!!!
Thanks heaps. That line has been sending me nuts!
Thank GOD. WOOOOO Thank you soo much.
Thank You ! ! ! Been chasing this for too long…
Thank you very much !
I left school because i could’n't write between the lines
and now my whole text on the pc was full of them
impossible to get them out
Thank you so much: you made my day!
I couldn’t have done it without your tutorial. ? You’re the best! … XD
I couldn’t have done it without you. You’re the best! … XD
Thanks so much!
Very helpful, even for someone who’s been around Word for 25 years! It’s great when people take time share the knowledge they’ve learned with others!
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Just wanted to join the throng and say THANK YOU!
I’ve been struggling with this for years and when I found this guide I thought this would finally allow me to win this battle but alas, these instructions are useless against any line that wasn’t added immediately (i.e. i didn’t just type it moments ago, the document could be hours or even years old and the thunderbolt icon will NOT appear).
What more can be done? And why is this never explained by MS’ own HELP FILE?!?!
Damn you Bill.
Genuis! I’ve been trying for months to figure this out, to no avail. Thank you SO MUCH!!
Thanks so much. This was a headache for me and for my husband, the computer software writer!
Thank you. Very helpful.
Thank you so much!! Worked perfectly! God Bless!
thank you soooooooooooooooooooooooooo much
that is really impressive
that line was like a pain in the a**
thanks a bunch! at first i found it useful to add lines to separate sections of the word. but when i wanted it out of my sight, i was so annoyed and so tired of it! thanks a lot.
Thank you. I knew it was easy once you know the secret.
Well I have tried and tried this solution, and it will not work for me at all. I am using Word 2007, and have followed the instructions to the letter … no joy!
Any more ideas on this?
Thank you,
Like many of the posters above, this has driven me near mad. I appreciate your step by step walkthrough.
Legend!
Thank you so much for this. It was really helpful. I felt like a bit of a fool before I found this site. You’ve made my day.
Thank you again
Your steps helps remove the line in the document we open; how to set a default so that in our future new word 2007 docs, we do not have to do this every time?
Hey pals! The easiest way to remove it is to just go to the preceding line and push (no borders) button in the first ribbon (MSWord 2010). Easy as it is
Thank you so much! The stupid line was driving me nuts
FYI: This worked for me in Office 2010 just as it is described in your instructions for the 2007 version.
Thanks! X 3 from Japan.
Both the Word Help and the support.microsoft.com were good-for-nothings.
This is probably the best post on the internet.
Thank you SO MUCH! I thought might through the computer out the window.
Just like the dozens of others, I want to say thanks. Now, the trick is to remember this information so if I run into it again, I’ll remember how to fix it.
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YOU ROOOOOOOOOOOOOCK! This has been plaguing me for years.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
If these instructions don’t work for you, try this:
Instead of Step 1, “Place your cursor directly above the offending line,”
go to Home, Select, Select All
then go to Step 2.
This was the only way these instructions worked for me. I’m using Word 2010.
Thanks for the tip. I go To Pasadena City College and this is due tomorrow thursday for my speech class thank you so much.
Thank you so much!!! I have been trying to figure this out FOREVER…. I Google it and Voila! Problem solved
You totally ROCk. I’m a legal secretary, and we CANNOT have misc lines showing up … you’ve saved my a$$!
BIG thank you, I was really annoyed about this line. The steps you provided helped!!!
This is really helpful! I’ve tried a lot of workaround, including copying and pasting the text (leaving the line of course) into a new document, to no avail. Good thing I got to see this site. Thank you so much!
Thank You!!! so helpful
WIN. THANK YOU. @*&(*&#%(8 microsoft
A MILLION thank-yous!!!!! This has PLAGUED me for longer than I want to admit.
Of course, the border function! You’ve done a great service with this blog.
Still. Awesome.
what in the world were they thinking when they designed thee features. Shoot me if I my a Microsoft product gain, please…….
thank you very much …………………………………………………………………….
solve my problem in few minutes with the help of this website
so once again thank you very much
OMG, had a done a simple search I could have saved myself days of OCD obsessing over that stupid line! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Great post! I should have come here first instead of wasting 30 minutes! Nice job. Thanks Kelly
Ni thengiu muno nigutumenyithia uria tungitharia raini iyo. Thank you so very very much!!!!!
Thanks Dear.. This issue has troubled me like forever – until now that is!!
THANKS!!
another thank you, thank you, thank you – you’ve saved me hours
Thanks so much– I have been messing around with this for about a half hour with no luck! What a lifesaver! And what a strange feature on Word…
Thanks a million – great help in the final hours of a phd!
Thank you for the article! It was very helpful.
thanks guys, this really work
You are my hero.
Thanks!!! worked like a charm!
This was the first Google hit – it worked. Many thanks.
Thanks soooooo much
This line was annoying me for months ……….
Thanks! That’s been bugging me for a long time. Such a simple fix…
Thank you so much! I struggled to have a line (I had drawn using Word’s Shapes) appear in the footer when I saved the doc. as a PDF and just couldn’t…that is until I googled the issue and saw this solution.
You’ve saved me so much time, THANKS AGAIN!!!!!
Thanks a lot!!!!
It was SOOOO useful! and so simple to understand and to do!
Well done, man. Just the ticket!
Your a superstar mate
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I had a problem of a line that would not even allow me to select it, or the line above or below it. I was getting so frustrated with the person who prepared that portion of the document, and they had no idea how to fix it, then inspiration hit! It was an Endnote!
Under the References tab in Word 2007 there is a button that says “Show Notes”. After clicking on that a few times, I found the document had a hidden reference to an end note. As soon as I deleted the letter in the word (it was the last letter of a word in a sentence, not a super- or sub-scripted letter), the end notes disappeared along with the line! It was wonderful to discover that!
So for all of you who use Ctrl +A and find that your entire text is not highlighting, your line probably indicated a footnote or endnote section.
I just want to repeat what everyone has said:
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thank you very much.finally!!!!!
Searched for this help to help a friend on official document, who is now grateful!
Thank you so much. It took me half an hour trying to get rid of the line. when i could have done it in ten minutes. Thank you for giving us the steps and the screen shots!
I had forgotten this trick and was going mad trying to solve the problem. Thank you!
Your instructions for MS Word 2003 worked exactly as described. Thank you!!
Thank You. 2 days before my final report is due in Accounting and when I copy and paste from msn money and other places for articles it was driving me crazy. Going to save this incase I forget in the future! Thanks again!
I went also crazy..but this was NOT the solution that helped me. Finally I found the solution myself: the problem was that there was a endnote in my text that I did not know of and the line that was appearing and I could not delete, was actually the line parting my normal text from the endnotes. I discoved this when I put my cursor just below the line and right clicked I” > go to endnote” appeared. wich option did not appear when I right clicked just above the line.
Thanks so much!!! it was driving me CRAZY!!!
For newer versions of Word (and maybe the older ones) all you need to do is Select All –> Format –> Borders and Shading –> None –> OK.
Often many of these lines will appear if you are doing a lot of indenting, numbering, etc., by using Select All you can take them all out with one fell swoop.
(did this on Mac but I’m sure works for Windows as well)
Thank u soooooo much….
To @le-drummer (new comment) on August 23rd, 2011:
I was also struggling with this (Word 2007).
The method given in the original instruction did not work for me as there was no way to limit the “no border” to just a chosen paragraph in the (full blown) Borders & Shading available through the Page Layout tab. But I followed @mwgrigs comments posted on July 30th, 2008, except:
You cannot highlight lines made using “3 hyphens (underscore, tilda or plus signs) + enter” method.
So place the insertion point in the paragraph directly before the offending line. It can be anywhere in that paragraph.
Now from the Paragraph group (by default 3rd on the Home tab), click the drop down arrow on the Border icon (usually the last right on the bottom row).
From the choices in the drop down, choose “no border”.
The line should be removed.
Hope this works for you.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Argh! This has been a long-standing frustration with me and my confusion about Word’s auto-formating feature. At last, it is resolved and I thank you for sharing this post.
I am using word 2007
The above solution didn’t work for me, but the solution below worked
Select All –> Home –> Paragraph–>Click on arrow beside border icon –> No border.
Hope it works for you as well.
it worked……………. thank you
Thank you for keeping this site up.
If you use MS Word 2007, and the advice in this blog or its comments section doesnt work, try this…
Go to References Tab > Show Notes > find note reference numbers within your document > eliminate these numbers
What I found was that a reference note had been included in a document that I used as a basis to create a new document. After trying the advice in this blog, along with advice found elsewhere, and after pulling out my hair, I stumbled on this fix.
Once I eliminated the reference numbers from my document, the reference “line” disappeared. Good Luck.
After posting my solution, I found that “Leighann(new comment) on November 15th, 2011″ reported the same fix Thanks Leighann!
Thank you a zilion times. I have been fighting this creature for years. I would copy text peice by peice from the plagued document into a new one to escape the terror. Now, thanks to your advice, I feel tempted to chant “free at last . . . free at last!”
This has been driving me crazy for so long and I’ve looked at other sites that apparently told you how to get rid of it & still couldn’t figure it out, but you put it so clearly & concisely that it was easy! I love you!!
Amazing that the comments on this thread span YEARS. Thank you so much.
I am one of those for whom no amount of fiddling with the borders did anything to remove the line that was already in my document, no matter where the cursor was, what I had selected, or how I applied the change (and the line even followed me if I cut and pasted to a new doc). Some things I learned that might help others:
* While the line appeared visually at a specific spot, it was somehow associated with a chunk of the document that spanned several paragraphs (I suspect that this is because the doc had changed a bit since the line was first added, which would be why not everyone has the same trouble). I couldn’t delete the line by itself, but if I deleted this entire chunk, the line WOULD go away. (I experimented by deleting larger and larger pieces in order to find the boundaries of the chunk.)
* There was no particular spot or subset of the chunk that could be deleted to remove the line – had to nuke the whole thing.
* Fortunately, I discovered that I could also get rid of the line by changing the STYLE of the chunk (I changed it from Normal to No Spacing). I could even change the style back again and the line would stay gone. (Here again it had to be the whole chunk.) Hooray!
* It was also possible to “clean” the chunk by pasting it into Notepad, then recopying from there and putting it back (but of course if the Style change works for you then there’s no particular reason to resort to this).
If the Border Lines approach didn’t work for you, hopefully this helps.
You are a savior. I wanted to separate my chapters but when I decided I wanted to put what I wrote of one in the previous chapter I couldn’t get my cursor below the stupid line. Thank you sooooo much
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have had this aggravating problem for many years, albeit rarely. It is great to finally know the solution!
I have been struggling with this annoying problem for months. Thank you for making my life better!
OH MY GOSH. THHHHAAAAAANK YOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
i know a lot of ins and outs and work arounds for Word but i NEVER could figure this one out.
so again, THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!!
Thank You Thank You Thank You Thank You !
So helpful
Brilliant thank you!! I have been tearing my hair out trying to get rid of that line!
THANK YOU!!!!! I worked how to do this on the old version of Word a very long time ago but in recent times couldn’t remember. Damn Word and its annoying idiosyncracies! Thank you!
Thanks DUde….AWESOME>>>>>>!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Had lost my temper really…..~!!!!!!
awesome ……..!!!!!!
Thanks a lot!! This has been bothering me for SO long!
Thanks, this has saved me having to completely retype my chemistry coursework
thanks
i love you … THANK YOU
Thank you kind blogger!
You saved the day.
Thanks:)))))))))))))) It was bothering me too much:)
THANK YOU!!!
That was totally it. THANK YOU FOR HELPING HUNDREDS, IF NOT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE — AND YOU GOT SCREENSHOTS TOO! (Everybody loves screenshots — at least I do.)
It’s too bad your link wasn’t the first one to pop up in my Google search for “How to remove the double underline in Microsoft Word XP”.
I’ve had this problem for YEARS and I think the only reason I was totally motivated to figure it out was because I didn’t want to re-do an entire document because I couldn’t get “past” the double underline (AKA horizontal line) to type more text! It only got worse when I did an Insert Page Break and got THREE horizontal double underlines!!!
YEARS of aggravation could have been saved with Google search FTW! D:
Oddly enough, on another web link where someone else had a double underline problem with bullets prompted me to try clearing out the border using the “no border” toolbar button (?). In my case, it appeared to be a double underline border underneath the “Paragraph”, if that makes sense.
I’ve tried this “no border” thingy successfully in both Microsoft Word XP 2002 and Microsoft Word 2010 today but for the guy chunking stuff because fiddling with borders failed or those end noters — YMMV. D: I’ll have to remember everyone else’s “variations on a theme” work-arounds…
Anyway, I’ve bit.ly’d this link forever (assuming it doesn’t change) with bit.ly/removehorizontalunderlineinword for you all and bit.ly/removedoubleunderlineinword for me!
(I tell ya, Laziness truly is the Mother of Invention…)
And, YES, it was ANNOYING as HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! D`:
Thank you!! Very helpful and simple and clear. Better than MS Word help
Thank you soooo much!! Was about to give up on Word.
compà sei the best
Thx for the help. I see that my horizontal lines are in my header and footers, but I cannot remove them. Just am beside myself now that I have found them. GRRRR!
Thx everyone for being here.
Andee in AZ
Wow! Finally. I reduced the size of the line in the header or footer. Moved it all the way to the left. Closed the footer or header page. Went back to Insert and selected footer or header again and then selected to remove it and it worked. Tthank everyone.
Andee in AZ
Removing of the line was very easy with your explanation. Great tip!
THANK YOU!
Thank you very much. It is very helpful
THANK YOU SOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Thanks for this tip. Saved me a lot of agrivation.
Like so many other, I am very grateful for this!
THANK YOU!!! you are the most amazing person!!!
Thank you!
Ur great man thatnx alot!
THANK YOU!!!! If I knew who you were, I would send you $5 – I offered that to anyone within our comany who could remove it, and no one could. Made my day!
Adding my heartfelt thanks!! I usually immediately catch the error and Undo right away but missed it this time and could not for the life of me get rid of the dang line afterward.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. That pesky line has been bugging me for years!
thank youuu!!!
Man, totally sorted me out today! Spent a good hour trying to fix this problem; your help is huuuugely appreciated! Thanks a million dude.
WoW! Such an easy solution to an enormous stupid feature in MS Word1
THANK YOU!
Whew! Thank you SO much! I spent so much time on this & it was driving me mad too – such a relief – many, many thanks!
very helpful, thank you very much, me like others sepent a lot of time to figure out how can be removed and got rid of this annoying line or border , thanks
very helpful, thank you very much, me like others spent a lot of time to figure out how can be removed and got rid of this annoying line or border , thanks
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
THANK YOU – it’s the middle of the night – I’m typing an important report – and got stuck with that line. VERY HELPFUL instructions – thank you – you’re a life saver!!
Try Ctr Q. It’s easier…
Thank you very much. I was becoming mad
thank you very much.. it was very very helpful
This was a big help. Thanks very much!
Thank you for sharing! Great tips~~
THANK YOU!!!!!
Thanks! You’ve saved me from smashing everything in frustration.
thanks you!
Super! Thank you!
you are a saint.
THANK YOU! Such a simple fix but the problem was so unbelievably irritating. I am VERY grateful to you for providing this helpful fix.
Thanks – I have a mac Word 2008, worked perfectly!
Thanks a lot! This f****ing line nearly drove me crazy while I was writing my new book. Thanks again!
Terje
Thanks for the help…..
Thank you very much, this had been annoying me for a while! Very simple to get rid of once you know how!
[SOLVED] my problem but in a different way:
That’s not a border, it’s BORDER INSIDE A FOOTER!
So, edit your footer as if it’s a page, select BORDER (you should see a top line at the moment) and choose “none”.
Thus, the annoying footer line is deleted!
20120511
A heartfelt thanks! Really really helpful!!!
thanks
it even works for 2010 word
thanks a bunch
Thank you
you ARE the messias!!!
Thanks for the help on something I forgot how to do.
Thanks a lot for helping. I was worried about it. This article helped me lot. Thanks……..
Thanks! This was driving me crazy!!
Thank you. This kept me from jumping out the window today.
Thank you!!! I don’t need anything from Amazon. How about adding a “donate” button?
thank you!!!!! Echoing grateful comments from others above. Aaargh – what an oversight not allowing removal on the page!
Thanks a good deal!
THANK YOU!!!!! YOU SAVED MY LIFE!!!!!
Thanks a million. I could not figure out for the life of me what I had done wrong. I was able to remove the line with your help. God Bless you!
Awesome, thanks a million!
perfect solution–thanks.
I was so exited when I found out how to make that line too…
Defintely a thank you. I am glad a post this old is still out here! We could NOT get rid of the line in the footer and I just didn’t consider the page borders. Thanks again!
This info on how to delete the LINE that was auto inserted is so so valuable! I am new to Office 2007 and would never have figured this out. THANK for posting this information in such detail!
LeAna on May 29th, 2008 re word 7 in compatibility mode
do what it says then go to the style option and select “none” ie no style for the line. Mine was a double line and when I selected no style for the no-box effect then the dratted line vanished
many thanks buddy.. just what i was looking for
thanks pal you have taught us something wonderful a small thing but was apain. Iam going to email this to all my phd friend because I sure each one gets stuck with this LOC. But for me the page layout method worked.
Thanks so much. That was a really irritating line and this helped to get rid of it in no time.
Thanks a million, never could figure that out. Amazing that MS doesn’t have this on their help menu.
That was fantastic. It worked!!!
I am having the same problem, a line I cannot get rid of. But I am having a problem following your instructions and this is probably something really dumb on may part. Here is my issue, you state to place the cursor above the unwanted line and then click on Page Borders under Page Layout. How do I click on Page Borders while having the cursor remain above the line? Is there a keyboard shortcut I am unaware of or do I need to move the cursor back or am i just missing something really simple? Thank you, Slate
i figured it out, i just held down shift, selected everything and then hit page border while holding down shift. Thanks! Slate
Thanks!!!!!
Bless you!!! Your advice for Word 2007 works equally well for ridding Word 2010 documents of those pesky unwanted lines. I revise a lot of documents from various sources in my work and this problem occurs too freakin’ frequently. I’ll keep your method handy as a sanity preservative.
FTW. THX.
You were right- this was driving me crazy! Thank you for the easy to understand fix. Awesome.
(BTW – I used the Amazon link)
Thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s still helping! Removing that is sooo not intuative.
This was driving me absolutely BONKERS – I’m very knowledgeable with Word but I couldn’t work out what the hell it was doing – that insight that it’s using borders (WTF?!) meant I could just Ctrl-A and remove borders from the whole document, instead of every time I start a new paragraph ending up with another black line (and no, I didn’t have the Horizontal Line after paragraph turned on). This is a 40000 word document with 200 paragraphs and every time I deleted a line it would come back whenever I edited the paragraph, so I cannot overstate how much you just helped me. THANK YOU
I’m so glad to find this tip. The offending line has been removed!!!
Thanks, now I am relieved from this annoying problem
After three “—” it makes HR line.
Your tutorial DOESENT work!!!!
Cant get rid of HR!
Oh my God! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!
It worked for me.
Word 2010
Menu: Page Layout -> Page Borders
Select setting ‘None’ for Page border.
Bingo!
the horisontal line in the footer area is gone.
Thank you so much! It is crazy how much those crazy lines bother me, and apparently so many others! Thanks for making our lives so much less annoying! I am so happy! =)
FINALLY!
This post has been up for over 4 years and it’s still helpful. Thanks.
Wow, so many comments! Thank you, I am now one of the 99999999999999999 people you have helped.
Just don’t understand what the ‘border line’ does exactly, but I don’t really care as long it is gone
thank you “multiplied by 1000″
seriously man, if it hadn’t been for you, i would’ve had wasted hours of time
Thanks a zillion! I have been fighting this line for ages. I can’t image why MS ever did this to us, but then this will be not the last time somebody wonders about the nonsense of Word from one version to another.
Now that I have thanked you and made a purchase on Amazon via your link I’m just afraid to leave you my email address for the fear of being bugged by adds and spam from your marketing website…
Thanks anyway!
Thanks this saved me, because I was about to scrap my whole document, just to get rid of this. This was very annoying, but thanks to you, I have to fret no more.
thank you so much, it worked.
I’m still loving you for that tip
It’s 2012 and you’re still helping. After a lot of trial and error I finally decided to look for help. Thanks.
Another grateful fan bookmarks this post!
Thank you! It’s been driving me crazy! Quick, easy fix!
I wonder, what would have I done, without this kind of tips and internet ?
Thanks for the tip.
OMG! it was soooooo irritating! thanks works like a charm!!
Thanks, you solved my probelm. I was fighitng to correct this from 4 days.
doing my dissertation, that *%^&* line was doing my head in big time. A big thank you!
None of the fixes described get rid of that fucking line.
I’m in Word 2010 and there is no “lightning bolt” icon
anywhere near the unremovable and unselectable line.
I wish Microsoft would stop rleasing their shit without
at least verifying that it operates consistently, predictably,
and reliably, never mind user-friendly!
Thanks a lot, I has been annoyed for years by this border line and finally….thank you so much.
Grazie mille
This was something that I could never figure out – I would often just delete my document and start over to get rid of the line.
Thanks for sharing – a clear and thorough presentation.
Jeanne
This is a life-saver. I was screaming at my computer trying in vain to figure out how to get rid of that.
Thank you for posting this. Very thorough.
Thank you for your useful hint!
Thank you!
can’t imagine how a line can be so annoying.
very very helpful as i lost so much time in fixing the problem but your method has helped me in last
My issue was corrected with one of the initial commenters suggestion; if in a table you have to select the table border = none above or below the line to correct.
dear god, i literally was about to punch my laptop because of that stupid line, but pulled back my fist at the last second.
holy shit, was that annoying and frustrating.
Infinite thanks…It has been so helpful..thank again.
thank u!! it worked!!
Thanks a lot!
Thanks a ton… I was really helpful to finally get rid of this annoying line!!!
Gang, I found a much simpler fix, which worked like magic:
1) Select the whole document (Control/Left Click)
2) Home/Paragraph/Borders
3) Click none
And they’re all gone! Thank G-d.
Thank you! I was about to go crazy with that indestructible line lol
Thank you! I was about to go crazy!
Thanks!! Very helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, I can now remove the border line from my word 2003 document.
This good feeling to get help from people you do not know them personally.
So, the life will be nice.
Ali
You are a saint among saints. You truly have no idea.
Thanks for the tip because it worked perfectly. Thing was driving me nuts! Now I know how to fix it on my home computer should it happen. Peace OUT!
Great help. Thank you. Keep it up!
Thanks. It has taken off a big burden from me as I have been looking for the solution all over (except here!). Thanks.
worked like a charm. thank you so much.
Thanks, very helpful, it hasbeen driving me crazy for months!
Many thanks, it hasbeen driving me crazy for months
Muito obrigada pela ajuda. Consegui tirar as linhas do meu texto. Valeu!!!
very precise explanation with screen shots!
Thank you very much dear, Your help is great !! Hats off to your desire that others should not suffer !!
You area genious ! Your help with the screenshot demo is a fabulus idea ! Thanks a million again !
Avinash
Thanks- very helpful and easy guidance.
For those of you 2007 users for which this solution didn’t work: once in Borders and Shading, you must perform the operation described while in Boarders tab, not the Page Boarder tab.
Good luck.
THANKS SOOO MUCH!! This was driving me crazy.
Phew! That was great – thanks a million.
Thanks so much for the tip. You saved the day!