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how can i permanently remove the line between paragraphs

I'm using Word 2013 in Office 365 Home and all I want to do is eliminate the line between paragraphs. I've tried selecting the option in 'line options' for all documents using normal.dot yet the setting doesn't hold. I tried opening the normal.dot and then saving it but it doesn't show any changes either. I have the same problem with my email as well. Any thoughts?
What you have to do depends on what kind of line you have.

If you see gray boxes around all the paragraphs like this:



then go to the Options dialog, click Advanced, scroll down to the "Show document content" section, and uncheck the box for "Show text boundaries".

If you see just a single horizontal line between paragraphs, like this:



that's a bottom paragraph border, probably applied by the AutoFormat As You Type feature. First turn off the feature: Go to Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options and click the AutoFormat As You Type tab of the dialog (NOT the AutoFormat tab). Uncheck the box for "Border lines". Now, to get rid of the existing lines, select all of the paragraphs that have a line below them, go to the Home tab and click the down arrow on the Borders button in the Paragraph group, and click No Border.
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The description threw me but, I suspect he/she means the inter-paragraph space (or apparently empty 'line')  that is a feature of the normal style rather than an actual ruled 'line'. In this case it would mean changing the default paragraph style to lose the 'space after' paragraph formatting.
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On rereading, I suspect you're correct. We'll have to wait for opal45 to return and let us know.
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Have tried all suggested solutions and still have the gray lines as indicated in the first example!!

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Specifically, did you do this?

go to the Options dialog, click Advanced, scroll down to the "Show document content" section, and uncheck the box for "Show text boundaries".

If that box is cleared but the lines are still there, then what you have is not the text boundaries.

The next possibility is that you have borders around your paragraphs. (If they appear in the print preview, then they are borders.) To remove borders from the selected text, click the Borders button on the Home tab and click No Borders.

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