Banishing gray lines in Outline View

[Mark Tangard]

Thought I'd heard all the usual offended-sensibility complaints about
the Word interface, but someone has just asked me if there's a way to
get Outline View to display without the faint gray lines that appear
under part of every heading.

Given how often I have to justify using ShowAll to see paragraph marks &
such, and given that there seems to be no justification for those gray
lines, I can almost see her point.

Anyone know of a way to change the page appearance to get rid of those
lines -- or failing that, a reason for them?

TIA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I get the impression that they reinforce the message of the +, that there is
content at a lower level. If you have a heading with no lower-level content,
it doesn't show the gray line, and when the text is fully expanded (nothing
hidden), there are no gray lines.

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[Mark Tangard]

Ah, good. That should satisfy.

MT.

I get the impression that they reinforce the message of the +, that there is
content at a lower level. If you have a heading with no lower-level content,
it doesn't show the gray line, and when the text is fully expanded (nothing
hidden), there are no gray lines.

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

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[Beth Melton]

I've found they provide a little more information as well. The
starting position of the line is relative to the outline structure.

For example if you are showing Level 1 and the start of the line is
indented about three characters then the next paragraph is body text.
If five characters then the next paragraph is a Level 1. If ten
characters then the next paragraph is Level 3, etc.

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