Help! Dashed lines are coming out of the wood work all over my do

[Guest]

OK, so this is rather of a case from hell. I am working on the final edits
of my novel, about 400 pages, soon to go out to a very interested agent. All
of a sudden these bold dash break lines are appearing all over the text,
between paragraphs, changes in formating, etc. HELP! And yes, they appear
when printed as well. I suspect this is some auto formatting thing which
someone, somewhere, imagined as helpful, but it is just freaking me out!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For cause, cure, and prevention, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm

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

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[CyberTaz]

What you describe sounds like no "feature" Word has to offer. It sounds more
to me like you're dealing with a corrupt document - I hope you have a
backup... you do have a backup copy, right???? If not I'd suggest making one
(or 2) real soon.

Have a look at the causes & *cures* here - one or the other of these
techniques should enable you to recover a healthy copy - as well as your
sanity

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/apperrors/corruptdoc.htm

Once you've done so - dare I say it - backup, backup, backup