strange WORD problem

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gregf

I have a customer at the cafe I work at who has a word document on a PC
and it has a couple of lines, the | to be exact, that are sort of stuck
in the background. We can't figure out how to get rid of it. It's a
resume and the |s are in the lower right corner, with text to indented
to the right of it, but even if we change the margins we can't
highlight the lines and therefore delete them. It's like we just can't
access them. The only thing that will get rid of them is if we hilight
all the text and delete everthing. If we only delete some text then the
lines are still there. We can't get the cursor over it, it's as if they
are in the background. If we change the margin, the resume text simply
overlaps the |.
What is this, how did it happen, and most important, how do we get rid
of it?
 
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gregf

Well the customer and her document are gone now. But I am still
curious as to what it was. It was not grey so I don't think it was a
footer. Could a footer overlap with the normal text?
 
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gregf

I'm trying to create what you're talking about now to see if that was
it, but nothing happens in that menu when I select bar. Does that
produce the kind of thing I described, a vertical line, basically just
like the cursor, but stuck on the page like it's in the background?
 
T

Tony Jollans

Yes, more or less.

Not sure what you're doing, but in the Tabs dialog - enter a position in the
tab stop position box at the top, click on Bar and press Set then OK.
 
G

gregf

It overlapped meaning that we could move the text that she wrote over
the lines, as if they were on a different layer.
 
B

Beth Melton

More than likely they are drawing objects. Should you encounter this
again, turn on the Drawing toolbar and click the "Select Objects"
command. Then hover the mouse over the line and when the mouse pointer
changes to a multi-directional pointer (Move) click the left mouse
button to select the object.

If they appear in the same location on every page then they are in the
Header/Footer layer. Note the Header/Footer layer is not limited to
the space above/below the document - anything you want to have appear
on all pages (or multiple pages) in any location can be placed in this
layer.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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gregf

OK, I got it to work, I think that is what it was, a bar tab. Never
used that before, and it's strange that the user didn't know how she
got that into her document.
 
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