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In microsoft word 2007 it is easy to make a line seperate by typing 3 dashes and pressing enter, like so

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Normally I have no trouble removing these line seperates, but at the moment I have one I can't delete. I can't right click on it or anything, and even after deleting all of the text it remains.

How can I remove this thing, and why is it so hard to remove?

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I doubt it would have helped in this situation, but sometimes it helps to select (and delete) the paragraph mark (the [pilcrow ](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilcrow), ¶) which you can toggle using Ctrl-* (hence: Ctrl-Shift-8 on most keyboards). Like, if a bullet is styled differently from the sentence that follows it, that formatting is also set on the ¶ of the sentence... – Arjan Dec 3 '10 at 9:17
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Wow, so even if you do ctrl+a to select all content in Word, then press del to delete, the divider is still present?

I did some testing and this isn't a horizontal line (oddly enough), when you type

---

You get a bottom-border, which you can turn off via the Home, Paragraph, Borders control:

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If I select the entire document and press delete then it does indeed disappear, but if I select the text on either side of the border so as to include it, and delete the section containing it it wont delete. I always used --- as a quick separator and had no idea it was a border...explains why I could not delete it. Your solution worked perfectly, so thanks! – Jenny Dec 3 '10 at 8:26
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