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Quickly remove the horizontal lines in the header of a Word document

Author: Siluvia Last Modified: 2025-03-19

If you've added a header with horizontal lines in a Word document, there's no built-in function to remove them. However, with the Remove All Header Lines in Selected Range utility of Kutools for Word, you can easily remove horizontal lines from the header while keeping the header content intactβ€”with just a few clicks.

Remove the horizontal lines in the header of a Word document

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Remove the horizontal lines in the header of a Word document

Suppose your document contains different types of horizontal line headers. To remove only the horizontal lines from a specific type of header, follow these steps.

1. Select any content within the specific type of header from which you want to remove the horizontal line. Then, click Kutools > Remove > Remove All Header Lines in Selected Range.

a screenshot of enabling the remove header line feature

2. Then, a Kutools for Word dialog box will appear, confirming the successful removal. Click OK to close it.

Now, the horizontal lines have been removed from the specified type of header, leaving only the header content intact.

a screenshot showing the results
Note: If you don't select any content, horizontal lines will be removed from all headers throughout the entire document.

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