"Scanned printed material" is in all probability an object - a picture
of the scanned page. It cannot be edited in a word processing program.
There are a few 'workarounds' - such as covering the line with a
filled, borderless rectangle or line created with Word's drawing tools
- but to actually remove it you'll need to open the image file in a
graphics editing program. Once you edit it there you can save the
changes then insert the finished image into your doc instead of the
original.
Alternatively you can scan it again using an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) scanning program if you have one available. That
will give you an editable text file, sans lines or other graphic
elements - but will also have to be thoroughly checked for erroneous
characters - no OCR software is flawless, at least not on every
scan
Good Luck |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac