How-To: Insert a Horizantal Line in Word Quickly
When you are in a rush trying to type up your report for school or work, you don’t have time to waste. Instead of wasting time going through the Borders and Shading box here is a quick shortcut to add a horizontal line to save you time.
To separate two sentences or two paragraphs with a horizontal line, put your cursor
at the beginning of the sentence that you want under the horizontal line. Then type “—“(3 dashes) and press enter. It will automatically change to a horizontal line.
It doesn’t have to be just a horizontal line; you can change it by using different characters for the short cut.
To remove it
Put the cursor directly above the line.
Select Borders and Shading from the Format menu.
Click the None box and click OK.
To prevent the automatic insertion of borders
Select AutoCorrect Options from the Tools menu.
Click the AutoFormat As You Type tab.
Uncheck Border lines.
(In Word 97, the menu item is AutoCorrect and the check box is labeled simply Borders.)
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This method only works for Word versions prior to 2007.
It works on 2007 as well. make sure you press ENTER after typing the 3 dashes so it takes affect.
Excellent
Saved me a lot of faffing about
Worked like a charm for my daughter and I, thanks!
Just Perfect!!!! I was looking for a way to insert lines and I fond not only that but a way to do it fast
It’s great, thanks!!!!
What if you want to add a line that begins from the end of a word and across the page for example for headings Newsflash————————— (but a solid line not a dashed one)
Yeah, I’m with Lisa on this one….
How do you add a line after words. In other words, if I am designing a document where clients will need to fill in their details
Company Name: __________________________________
How do you make that line and ensure the text is still justified?
Any help will be appreciated!
Cheers for that!
For some reason Word likes to add an unbroken line at random times and this fixed it.
PS. Why is the cross hatching symbol being called a “Pound sign”?
This symbol:
#
Is that some weird renaming by Microsoft? I’ve also heard it lazily being called “hash”, but cross-hatching is the name used in artistry, so that’s what I call it.
^^– I had to pass this comment around the office.
’some weird renaming by Microsoft?’
gg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
These answers are all about horizonal lines going the full
width of the page. How do you put a short horizontal line – longer than a dash, but not the full width?