How to remove all horizontal lines from Word document?
Horizontal lines can divide paragraphs clearly. Many users already know they can add horizontal lines to document by typing three hyphens, underscore or asterisks and so on, and then pressing Enter. See screenshot:
How to remove all horizontal lines from the document? This tutorial will tell you the answers.
Manually remove all horizontal lines one by one
Remove all horizontal lines with VBA code
Remove all horizontal lines with Kutools for Word
Manually remove all horizontal lines one by one
If you just want to remove few horizontal lines, you can manually remove them as follows:
1. Put the cursor above the line;
2. Click on the Page Borders item in the Page Background group of Design tab;
3. Click Borders tab, click None, click OK. And the selected horizontal line will be deleted at once.
Remove all horizontal lines with VBA code
If you want to remove all horizontal lines in the document, it’s tedious to remove them manually. VBA can make it easier, do as follows:
1. Press Alt+F11 to open the VBA window in Word;
2. Click Module from Insert tab, and insert the code into the Module window;
VBA code: Remove all horizontal lines in a Word document:
Sub removehline()
Dim ils As Paragraph
For Each ils In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
ils.Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle =wdLineStyleNone
Next ils
End Sub3. Click Run button or press F5 to apply VBA directly. And all horizontal lines have been deleted from the document.
Remove all horizontal lines with Kutools for Word
It’s easiest remove all horizontal lines from the whole document or the selection of the document with Kutools for Word.
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1. Click kutools > Remove > Horizontal Line, see screenshot:
2. And then all horizontal lines from the whole document will be removed at once, see screenshot:
Note: If you want to delete part of horizontal lines, please selecte the range data, and then apply this feature.
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Demo: Remove all horizontal lines in Word
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