Drawing a Line but Big Box Keeps Appearing...

[SanDiegoSunRiser]

I have this office phone list with the staff names and numbers in
Word.
(It is done in a text document and not a table.)

Each staff person is separated by a line across the page.

I am revising the list and am trying to draw an additional line,
but when I click on the line button on the Draw Toolbar at the bottom,
a huge box appears which says "Create Your Drawing Here."

I thought that when you click on the line button, you then just click
in the document where you want to draw the line and drag it across.

That is not happening and I don't know why.

 

[Guest]

Line on drawing toolbar is one of the drawing objects and the box you
mentioned is called drwaing canvas. Instead of using drawing toolbar you can
use three consecutive hyphons(---)+enter and word will draw a line for you or
use Tables and borders toolbar and click on buttom border or Format\borders
and shadings and in borders tab click on horizontal line which will give you
a lot of options for horizontal lines

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

In Word 2003 or earlier, click on Tools | Options | General tab |
uncheck the "Automatically create drawing canvas" box | OK. In Word
2007, there is a similar option in Office Button | Word Options |
Advanced | Editing options.