How to add Horizontal Lines to a Microsoft Word Document

You’re looking for a way to create a break in your page, maybe you are starting a new topic, or you’re adding a new section. Adding a horizontal line to your document clearly shows a reader that a new section within your document has begun without having to create a page break leaving a whole heap of empty space.

There are two different types of horizontal lines you can add:

1. Quick Autoformat Lines
2. Microsoft Horizontal Lines

The autoformat option is most commonly used and many of us discovered it by mistake.

——————————————————————————————————————– That’s one there ^ by holding down the hyphen key you can create a quick and easy horizontal line in Word.

There are a few variations of the auto format line to choose from, just type 3 or more of any of these symbols and press Enter to create a horizontal line.

Adding a Microsoft horizontal line is just as easy, but does take a few more steps. In this post, we will show you how to insert a horizontal line into your Microsoft Word Document.

Adding Horizontal Lines to your Microsoft Word Document

1. Open Word
2. Place your cursor where you would like to insert a horizontal line
3. Click the Design tab
4. Click Page Borders

5. In the Page Border pop-out window, click Horizontal Line

6. Select the Style of Horizontal Line you would like to insert
7. Press Insert

You have now successfully inserted a Horizontal line into your Microsoft Word Document.

If you would like to add multiple lines, simply follow the steps above.

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When it comes to collaborating together on a Microsoft Word Document with the aim of achieving a perfectly proofed final version. Why do we always end up with a shared drive full old versions and little clarity on which one is the most recent file?

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When your team has finished making edits and you have accepted or declined any changes you can finalise the fine by pressing ‘Publish’. Simul will then allocate your final document a version number of 1.0.0 (rather than 0.0.1) and allows you to download it as a PDF, share via a sharable link, export to file services such as dropbox and more.

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