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!!!!
]]>* 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.
]]>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.
]]>Select All –> Home –> Paragraph–>Click on arrow beside border icon –> No border.
Hope it works for you as well.
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