Removing unwanted border lines in Word
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You’ve added a border to your Microsoft Word Document and it just isn’t right, the document looks a bit cluttered, overloaded and the border seems to be the main issue. Removing the border will take your document back to its standard settings, with clear margins and clean white space surrounding your text. This may better. A hashed border appears around the page number. The contents of the text box has focus, and you can insert or delete text inside the text box. Point to the hashed border. When you see a four-headed arrow, click the hashed border to select the text box. Press DELETE on your keyboard. Shape Outline lets you choose the color, thickness, or style of the outside border of a text box, shape, or SmartArt graphic. By setting the border to No Outline, you remove the border altogether. Note: If you're changing the border of a SmartArt graphic, select the graphic, and find Shape Outline on the Format tab. Newer Versions Office 2010.
In recent versions of Word, it is easy to create horizontal lines by accident. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to figure out just how to remove them.
The horizontal lines, which are paragraph borders, can appear if the “automatic borders” option is enabled in AutoCorrect and if you press one of the key combinations that triggers borders (three hyphens, three equal signs, or three underscore lines, followed immediately by the Enter key). If you want to insert a horizontal line quickly, the feature can be very useful. However, if you’re not aware of the way that the feature works, you can end up with an unwanted border line that is somewhat tricky to delete.
Sometimes, selecting the line and pressing the Delete key will remove the line. That doesn’t always work, however.
If not, try displaying the non-printing characters[1] (click the paragraph symbol, located in the Paragraph group on the Home tab in Word 2007 and Word 2010 and located in the Standard toolbar in Word 2002 and 2003; alternatively, press Ctrl Shift * [asterisk]) and then delete the paragraph symbol immediately above the line or the one immediately below the line. (If Word inserts the line as a “bottom” paragraph border, deleting the paragraph symbol above the line should work; if Word inserts the line as a “top” paragraph border, deleting the paragraph symbol below the line should work.)
Usually, that method will remove the line. But what if it doesn’t?
There are a few other possible solutions. With the non-printing characters displayed, select the line, as well as both the paragraph symbol above the line and the paragraph symbol below the line. Then do one of the following:
(1) Click the “No Border” icon.
If you’re using Word 2007 or Word 2010, navigate to the Home tab, Paragraph group, click the drop-down to the right of the Borders button (the icon at the right side of the bottom row in the Paragraph group), and click “No Border.” If you’re using Word 2002 or Word 2003, locate the Borders drop-down in the Formatting toolbar, click it, then click the “No Border” icon. (If doing so moves the border up, click the paragraph symbol above then line, then click the “No Border” icon again.)
(2) Clear the formatting.
After you’ve selected the line and the paragraph symbols above and below it, you can clear the formatting. Note that doing so could remove any styles you have applied to text immediately above or below the line, so use this method only if that is an acceptable result.
(a) To clear the formatting of selected text in Word 2007 or Word 2010, you can do any of the following:
(i) click the “Clear Formatting” button at the top right side of the Font group on the Home tab; or
(ii) click the dialog launcher in the Styles group on the Home tab, and when the Styles Pane opens, navigate to the top and click “Clear All”; or
(iii) click the Normal style in the Styles Pane (or in the QuickStyle gallery); or
(iv) press Ctrl Q to remove all paragraph formatting from the selected portion of the document; or
(v) press Ctrl Shift N to apply the Normal paragraph style (this method will strip out styles that have been applied to the selected text).
(b) To clear the formatting of selected text in Word 2002 or Word 2003, you can do any of the following:
(i) click the Edit menu, Clear, Formats; or
(ii) click the Format menu, Styles and Formatting, and when the Styles and Formatting Pane opens, navigate to the top and click “Clear Formatting”; or
(iii) click the Normal style in the Styles and Formatting Pane; or
(iv) press Ctrl Q to remove all paragraph formatting from the selected portion of the document; or
(v) press Ctrl Shift N to apply the Normal paragraph style (this method will strip out styles that have been applied to the selected text).
Once you have removed the border line, you might decide you’d like to disable the automatic borders feature permanently. Here’s how:
In Word 2007, click the Office button, Word Options, Proofing, and click the “AutoCorrect Options” button. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, click to uncheck “Border lines,” click “OK,” and click “OK” again to save your settings.
In Word 2010, click the File tab, Options, Proofing, and click the “AutoCorrect Options” button. Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab, click to uncheck “Border lines,” click “OK,” and click “OK” again to save your settings.
Remove Border Around Text Box Word 2010
In Word 2002 or 2003, click the Tools menu, “AutoCorrect Options” (not “Options”) and click the AutoFormat As You Type tab. Click to uncheck “Border lines,” and click “OK” to save your settings.
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[1] To hide the non-printing characters, either click the paragraph symbol again or press Ctrl Shift * (asterisk) again — it’s a toggle.
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Hello,I've created a frame which contains some text, and now I want to make the frame border invisible so it won't show in my document. I went to the frame dialog box, selected the 'borders' tab and under Styles I changed it from .05 pt to '- none -'. But when I click OK it doesn't make the border invisible, the border looks just the same. And when I go back to the frame dialog box 'borders' tab again, the Styles selection has reverted to the default value of .05 pt. Every time I change it from 05 pt to -none -, OpenWriter chages it back again to .05 pt, overriding my choice. Is this a bug in OpenWriter? Does anybody have any idea how I can successfully hide the frame borders?
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