If the Equal column width option is checked, Word automatically sets the columns to be evenly spaced. For Number of columns, you can type in a number or use the up and down arrows to select a number.In the Page Setup section, click the down arrow under Columns, then select More Columns.Open the Word document where you want to add columns.If there are some borders you really want to keep, then you should simply modify step 1 so that you select only those paragraphs that have borders you want to get rid of. These steps remove all borders from all paragraphs and tables within the document. The Borders tab of the Borders and Shading dialog box. Make sure the Borders tab is selected.Word displays the Borders and Shading dialog box. Click the down-arrow next to the Borders tool in the Paragraph group and then click Borders and Shading.Select all the paragraphs in your document by pressing Ctrl+A.
If you don't want to do this (perhaps you don't want to remove some other explicit paragraph formatting you have), you can follow these steps: To get rid of the border on all the paragraphs, you need to select all the paragraphs and press Ctrl+Q. All that really happened was that Word dutifully displayed the bottom border on the last paragraph with that format, which now happens to be the second of the original three paragraphs. Thus, the border appeared to "jump up" a line. (Word translates the border as one that appears under the group of like-formatted paragraphs, not one that appears under each individual paragraph.) When you performed step 4, the border was removed from the last of the three paragraphs, but it still remained on the other two. However, Word only displays the border of the last paragraph formatted with that border, even though all three have it. When you pressed Enter twice, in step 3, you ended up with three paragraphs, each formatted with a border underneath. Since the "line" is really a paragraph border, it appears at the bottom of the last paragraph that has that format. Why did this happen? The reason is quite simple. The underline appears to not go away, but jumps up a line. It appears as if you have moved the underline down two lines, since the insertion point is still at the beginning of the paragraph that has the underline.
This should place the insertion point at the beginning of the paragraph that now has the underline. Word converts them to a border underneath the paragraph. On a blank line, enter three underlines and press Enter.For instance, consider the following scenario, which you can try in a document: There is something else to remember when getting rid of borders created by AutoFormat: They can affect multiple paragraphs. If this does not do what you want, you can always select the entire paragraph that contains the border and simply delete it. This resets the paragraph's formatting back to its default, which usually does not include the border. Start by positioning the insertion point at the beginning of the paragraph that has the border and pressing Ctrl+Q. Now you are ready to get rid of the lines. (How you do this is covered in other WordTips.) Second, you need to display Word's non-printing characters. First, remember that the "line" added by Word is really a paragraph border it is not a real line. If you later want to delete the line, there are two things you can do that will help you. You can undo this by immediately pressing Ctrl+Z. For instance, if you press three underlines and then Enter, Word changes the underlines to a line.
Now that you know what causes the lines, you may be wondering how to get rid of them once they are in your document.Īs with any AutoFormat that is applied by Word, you can undo the change by pressing Ctrl+Z right after the change is made.