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How to remove all horizontal lines from a Word document?

Author Amanda Li Last modified

Horizontal lines can divide paragraphs clearly. Many users add them by typing three hyphens, underscores, or asterisks and pressing Enter, as shown below.

Horizontal lines of different styles in Word

However, removing these lines can sometimes be tricky. This guide will show you different methods to quickly remove all horizontal lines from your document.

Manually remove all horizontal lines one by one

If you only need to remove a few horizontal lines, follow these steps:

  1. Place the cursor above the horizontal line.
  2. Click Page Borders in the Page Background group under the Design tab.
    Page Borders button on the Design tab of the ribbon
  3. In the Borders and Shading dialog box, go to the Borders tab, select None, and click OK. The horizontal line will be removed.
    Borders and Shading dialog box

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  • To remove all horizontal lines from the entire document, click Kutools > Remove > Horizontal Line.
  • To remove horizontal lines from a specific section, select the section first, then apply the same feature.
    Remove > Horizontal Line option on the Kutools tab of the ribbon

All horizontal lines in the document will be removed instantly.

Horizontal lines from the document are removed
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Remove all horizontal lines with VBA code

Manually removing multiple horizontal lines can be time-consuming. You can use VBA to remove all horizontal lines in one step:

  1. Press Alt + F11 to open the VBA editor.
  2. Click Module under the Insert tab and paste the following code into the module window: 
    Sub removehline()
Dim ils As Paragraph
For Each ils In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
ils.Borders(wdBorderBottom).LineStyle =wdLineStyleNone
Next ils
End Sub
  3. Click Run or press F5 to execute the code. All horizontal lines will be removed.

Demo: Remove all horizontal lines in Word

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