Removing stubborn solid horizontal lines from Word document

I have placed a number of lines in a Word document to break it into sections.

I did this by holding down shift on the keyboard and hitting the underline key. I would now like to delete o of these lines, both of which, for some reason I do not understand, are bolder than the other lines on the page.

You would have thought that it would have been  simple enough, but clicking at the end of the line and  pressing "Delete" just deletes adjacent text rather than the itself. I do not see to be able to select the lines, either, to delete them.

I presumably must have done something to cause them to be so entrenched, but can anyone please suggest how I can delete them?

Answer
Answer

The lines are probably paragraph borders.

Click immediately above one of the lines.

On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Paragraph group, click the dropdown arrow on the right hand side of the Borders button, and select No Border from the dropdown menu.

Repeat for the other lines.

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Last updated May 15, 2024 Views 75,580 Applies to: