Word 2007 – How do I delete a solid line formed by dashes?

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I typed a series of dashes which Word 2007 changed to a solid line. I now want to delete the line. However there seems to be no way of selecting the line so I can delete it.

Word doesn’t seem to be seeing it as a “drawing” line so I can’t select with that method.

I have all formatting marks turned on so I tried selecting the paragraph mark before the line to the paragraph mark after the line and deleting. It deleted the two paragraph marks but left the line.

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Click on the borders & shading arrow in the paragraph group on the home tab ribbon. At the bottom, select borders and shading.
You’ll probably notice that you have a solid line as a paragraph border. Click on the None option in the setting section.

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kweaver…. Thank you so much! That was it. I knew word wasn’t recognizing it as a drawing. I guess since I originally keyed in dashes it would make sense that the answer was somewhere in the Paragraph formatting area.
Thanks again.

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See http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm for more.

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