How does one remove lines?

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Steve Hayes

I wanted to separate pieces of text in word 97 with three dashes ---

Instead it drew a line right across the page, and now I can't delete it.

How do I get rid of this line?
 
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

If you had read the article carefully, you would have read:

Note: If you've pressed Enter several times trying to get rid of the line,
you will merely have applied the border formatting to all the paragraphs you
added, as well as to the original one. This won't be obvious, because when
several consecutive paragraphs have the same "border below" formatting
applied to them, the border only appears below the last of them. So If you
then remove the Border formatting from the paragraph that has the line below
it, the line will move up one paragraph. The trick is to select all the
affected paragraphs and either press Ctrl+Q or choose No Border.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Steve Hayes said:
Thanks for that.

Problem is, that when I select the text and remove the "Borders and shading"
it simply moves that format back to the preceding paragraph.
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