I’ve finally figured out the most maddening problem in Microsoft Word. I never could get rid of these lines of small squares that reached from margin to margin. Nothing would dent them. I couldn’t highlight them, delete them, or overwrite them. ![]() The show all feature in Microsoft Word allows you to see each of the formatting mark tags, such as spaces, new lines, tabs, and new paragraphs in Microsoft Word. Above is an image of the pilcrow icon used to enable and disable this feature (looks like a backwards 'P') and some example text with each of the major formatting symbols. To enable or disable this feature, press the Show All,. Oct 05, 2018 Hello again Just writing to let you know on Zotero (5.0.55.1) using Word 2011 for Mac (14.7.1), Zotero citations still serve up an unwanted line break in my footnotes on the first page of a document when Zotero automatically updates the citations. The only solution was to erase the whole passage that contained them, and type from scratch. Sometimes that failed. They spread like rabbits. Here’s the secret. That line is the bottom border on the paragraph immediately above. So you have to attack it in that paragraph. Highlight the whole paragraph before the line, even if it’s just one carriage return. Click FORMAT, then BORDERS AND SHADING, then BORDERS (1). Under APPLY TO, click PARAGRAPH (2). Under SETTINGS (3), look at the bottom item: CUSTOM (4). That’s the baddie. See that little line of four dots? You have to kill that. Click NONE (5) at the top of that column, then OK (6). Voila, the line is gone, adios. Maybe it’s not. It’s still there, but moved up one line. The fiends at Microsoft designed in a defense against us. If there’s more than one dotted line, they stack on top of one another, but you only see one. So you have to repeat the whole process until they’re all gone. Last night, I rooted out seven of them masquerading as one. By the way, if you want to create that line, type a carriage return, three asterisks, and a carriage return. Different versions of Word may do this in different ways, but maybe you can figure out how to make the proper changes. I use Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. [Do you know different ways to get rid of these little monsters?]. On November 23, 2011 at 5:21 pm Lynette said: Oh my gosh, you cannot imagine how many hours I have spent trying to remove those dashed lines, and instead, they kept multiplying! After trying Dr. Fry’s suggestion (and repeating it many times) I came to the conclusion that either it was not working for me, or I must have hundreds of those hidden lines. I was glad to see the suggestion by Carole Moore above about trying “select all” and then proceeding as suggested by Dr. Fry and they disappeared! You guys are geniuses! Thank you both so much for sharing these wonderful secrets with those of us who might otherwise spend the rest of our lives imprisoned by these grids. On March 12, 2012 at 2:21 pm Donnalee said: Hi Doreen. I tried two other things that helped with page breaks that seemed to pop up too early. Best photo editing software for mac beginners. Under HOME, there is an icon that looks like an Aa within a box with an eraser under it. That will clear all your formatting from the section, but you have to do over what you want to keep. OR– under REVIEW, click Track Changes or Final Show Markup. You can click on each format box that appears on the right, and then click Reject Change. If you can find the one where you hit a page break (somehow) it will be gone, I played with this for a long time, but that helped. I hope your dissertation is fun. I wrote mine many years ago. Hang in there. On October 24, 2012 at 9:15 am Victoria Chadwick said: Thank You!Thank You!Thank You!Thank You!Thank You! It truly was maddening! I’m guessing you are like me.you started your “word processing” endeavors in that long lost Typewriterosaurus era, when we could only make that dashed line by repeating the “period” key. Maybe you also sometimes say “Ice Box” instead of “Refridgerator,” “Pocket Book,” instead of “Purse,” “Bathing Suit,” instead of “Swim Suit” and “Felt Tip,” instead of “Porous Point.”; ) Thanks again ~ you saved me a whole lot of retyping! On January 26, 2013 at 6:06 pm FryingPan9 said: This helped me too. Thanks very much. It was the first thing I found in a Google search. Years ago I learned how to make that dotted line appear but not how to get rid of them. I mainly write stand-up and used the long dotted lines to separate different ideas. But sometimes I copy/paste the ideas into a new doc so I can basically write out an entire set and word chop it and otherwise customize the material for whatever gig I’m doing. That’s when I found I didn’t want the dotted lines because in that context they were annoying. On May 1, 2013 at 1:26 am Ruik said: This stupid function can be turned off: 1) go to the “Office” button (i.e. That red/blue/orange/green thing, often in the top left of the screen); 2) Choose “Word Options”; 3) Choose “Proofing”; 4) Choose “AutoCorrect Options”; 5) find the “AutoFormat As You Type” tag; 6) look for the “Apply As You Type” option; and 7) unclick the box that says “Border lines”.
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