Does anyone know how to remove the lines that appear on Word documents? They only appear when you create the page but do not appear when the page is printed. For the life of me I can not find a way to turn them off.

 

I'm no Word pro but try this?The lines are probably paragraph borders.

Click immediately above one of the lines.

On the Home tab of the ribbon, in the Paragraph group, click the dropdown arrow on the right hand side of the Borders button, and select No Border from the dropdown menu.


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Thanks Lainey, I am pretty damn sure you hit the right area. These damn guidelines appear with every new document and even my older documents. There are at least three areas I know of which have impact: Page Borders, Paragraph Borders, and Auto Correct Borders. I have tried and tried and tried to deselect each area with "no borders" but it never works.

I have been using Word for at least 40 years but this has me stumped.

 

You are way more experienced than I. I do find, at times, that documents or Excel spread sheets that were created under earlier versions of the programs seem to do funky things when used with an updated version. I've got one spreadsheet that seems to have some funky issues with retaining formatting.

Good luck.

 

File, Options, Advanced, uncheck Show text boundaries

 

Thanks Julie but I wish it was that easy. When I select File .... these are my choices .... Options is not listed.

 

Which version of Word are you using?

 

 

Alright, try this. From the Word menu, click on Preferences and then select View to go to the View settings. There should hopefully be a box to uncheck for Text boundaries.

 

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Julie.