It's not a header, it appears three lines below the top of the page of document text. It is between the title of my bibliography and the first reference. Thanks for all your effort

Never give up.

I am attaching a word doc with a screen shot of what I am seeing in the place I believe you are referring to. In the third paragraph down, there is an almost empty paragraph, but you see the little circle there, which is followed by a space, then the pilcrow (backwards P, the paragraph marker). The little circle is, as far as I know, a marker for a non-breaking space, and I don;t know how it could become the kind of line you're referring to. In any case, it is easily deletable, so I am still perplexed at where this mysterious line is.

Your description of it appearing for 10 pages only, does indicate that it is only in one section. You can see section breaks, like the pilcrows and other hidden formatting marks, when yu have them turned on. You should see one after the last text on the page just before the page on which the first black line appears. It will have a fine dotted line and will probably say "Section Break (Next Page)".

Perhaps you would be willing try this for posting:

Turn on the hidden characters
Size your view similar to the way I did in my attached document, so that just the top of the page down to a few lines of text below the black line show, and then hold down the Alt key while pressing the Print Screen key. Ten open a new Word doc and paste. The image of window with your zoomed-in document will appear. Save it and attach it to your reply. There's a solution to this somehwre, we just have to find it.

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here is the page with the grey horizontal line. BTD

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Okay, now I know what to do. I should have known before.

All the text on these pages is footnotes! Word's standard (default) footnote setup includes the black line. Here's how to get to it:

1. Change your view to Draft
2. Select the References tab
3. Click on Show notes in the Footnotes section and select Footnote area
4. A fotnote pane will open at bottom.
5. In the dropdown box there that says All footnotes, use the down arrow and select Footnote separator from the list
6. You'll see the black line. Delete it.

Sorry it took me so long.

Best,
Ulodesk

Hey, that worked for the start of the bibliography but now I see that it is also on the top of every other page in the bibliography, with no section change. Sample below. Thank you very much for helping me on this.

BTD

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