horizontal line - mystery

[DianaH]

I have a bunch of bulleted items. Under each, I click onto the border box
and apply a bottom border. It works great "almost" all of the time.

However ... in this list of bullets, when I apply the bottom border, then
cursor down to the next pargraph (and it is a real paragarph, not a soft
return) ... it removes the line from the above paragraph. If it was the
same paragraph, I'd understand it, but it's not. I have 4 lines of text and
want this line between them all, and all lines get removed and applied to
the next, then it gets removed. If I add a blank paragraph (which I don't
want to do), it works.

Any thoughts ... please and thanks.
Diana

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word interprets "bottom" very literally. When you apply a bottom border, it
applies to the paragraph. If you insert another paragraph with the same
formatting (which is the default), then it inherits the bottom border. Since
Word assumes that you want all the paragraphs with the same formatting to be
inside the same border (think about how this would work if you were creating
a single box border), there is only one "bottom" border for all the
paragraphs with that formatting.

To get a line beneath each paragraph, you have to treat the paragraphs the
way you would the rows in a table. Select all the paragraphs (or the first
two if you'r just starting) and select not only the bottom border but all
the "Horizontal Inside" border.

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

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