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Old 02-22-2020, 04:00 PM
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I have a document originally written in Word 2003, but I have converted it to PDF and RTF and even opened it in Word 2010.

In all cases, I see a line of small square dots that appears always (I think) between two paragraphs. I cannot select that "line" with the dots in it, in order to delete it.

If I select part of the previous paragraph and part of the following paragraph, then press Delete, those bits of those paragraphs disappear, but the line of dots jumps to the paragraph break between the next two paragraphs.



Most interesting - to me - is the fact that, when I use a Hex editor to look at that bit of the file, it shows nothing between the 0D 0A of the paragraph break.

I have tried everything I can think of to get rid of this.

Can anyone help me?
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Old 02-22-2020, 05:24 PM
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Would it be possible to post the document here?
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I have actually managed to fix this. I clicked on "Format" then "Styles and Formatting" - something I think I've never done before - and found a box that had stuff in it that I'd never seen before... including options without the dots AND with the dots. I navigated to the places that were annoying me so much, clicked on what I wanted - without the dots - and the dots disappeared!
What was really strange is that now - when I go back to the same box - there are no options with the dots anymore.
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You can select paragraphs "surrounding" the border line and turn off the borders in the Borders & Shading dialog box. See Troublesome Lines.
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