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How to print lined paper with text

I correspond with a family member who resides in a government facility where the preference is for letters to be written on lined paper.  

I am trying to find a way to insert lines under the text while in Word that will print on the final product.  A grid is too busy.  Vertical lines are a problem.  I just want to create a finished product where the text of my document prints aligned with the horizontal lines.

A better -- or at least simpler -- explanation might be that I want to create standard student-ruled paper [say, double spaced] with the text properly aligned with those horizontal lines.

It seems like a very "school teachery kind of thing".

Anything you can think of that might fit my bill?

tia

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Hi eyore15,

I'm Jen, an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user like you. Thanks for reaching out.

You can create a lined paper using a one-column table without vertical borders

1. First, you can adjust the paper margins in Layout tab. Hit the small arrow on the bottom-right corner or Page Setup section to evoke the setting window.

2. Choose Insert Table and change the number of columns to 1 and then you can customize the number of rows.

3. Click OK and the table will be inserted. Right-click the archer button on the top-left corner of it to choose Table Properties where you can customize the height.

I hope this helps.
@J.A.

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Your best bet is to create a lined background, which will repeat on every page. You can do this with drawing lines anchored to the header or by scanning a sheet of lined paper and anchoring that to the header (Behind Text). Then, in the body of the document, adjust the line spacing of your text to match the spacing of the lines in the background. Although these lines will be dimmed in the working document (because they're in the header), they will print in full color.
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