[Solved] Removing horizontal line is impossible

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milan
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[Solved] Removing horizontal line is impossible

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Hi, I pretty much tried everything to delete this horizontal line but it doesn't work. Any help?
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Zizi64
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Re: Removing horizontal line is impossible

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The line is a bottom border in the manual formatting properties of the paragraph
Click on the paraggraph, Format - paragraph - Border TAB - uncheck Bottom border

Or: select ALL, and Ctrl-M to reset direct (manual) formatting of the paragraphs
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Re: Removing horizontal line is impossible

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It is a border applied to one of the paragraphs, either a border above paragraph, or a border below paragraph (and my first question to the forum).

Highlight all the text > Format > Paragraph > Borders and set line thickness to none, and click the left hand " box " which means no borders. It should go.

It didn't actually work for me so I set the borders to red, and then removed the red border, when it worked. You can apply / remove the border to one of more paragraphs.

You probably have Automatic lines set which is what caused it. Help says:
Automatic lines in Writer
1. If you start a new line in a Writer text document by typing three or more hyphen characters and press the Enter key, the characters are removed and the previous paragraph gets a line as a bottom border.
To create a single line, type three or more hyphens (-), or underscores ( _ ), and then press Enter. To create a double line, type three or more equal signs (=), asterisks (*), tildes (~), or hash marks (#), and then press Enter.
2. To remove an automatically drawn border, choose Format - Paragraph - Borders and select no border.
3. To undo an automatic border replacement once, choose Edit - Undo.
4. To disable the automatic borders, choose Tools - AutoCorrect Options - Options and clear Apply border.
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Re: Removing horizontal line is impossible

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Zizi64 wrote:Or: select ALL, and Ctrl-M to reset direct (manual) formatting of the paragraphs
This one worked, thank you very much.
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