I have a document that I created a long time ago in Word 2003. I opened it in my Word 2016. There's a long dotted line across the bottom of the page that I can't get rid of. It shows in every view but I can't select it or remove it. If I select everything above it, when I put that info into a new document, the dotted lines come with it, even though I couldn't select them .


How do I get rid of this??

Have you clicked on the Show/Hide button to help identify what the dotted line is? If so then post a picture so others can see it.

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Is this line on every page or just one. If it is on every page then it is probably part of the header or footer so that is where you need to edit it.

Again, this is a lot easier to diagnose if you attach a small sample document.

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Andrew Lockton
Chrysalis Design, Melbourne Australia

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Troublesome Lines - Borders by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP

Between the time I read this and now, a coworker had an issue with a short solid line showing up at the bottom of a document. We played around with it and finally determined it was the default separator below which footnotes would be placed. There were no actual footnotes in the doc, but perhaps someone had accidentally clicked on the button to add one, and it's not quite as simple as backspacing or highlighting and deleting to get the footnotes and the separation line out. You can try viewing your doc in Draft mode with Show ¶ turned on, and you'll possibly see a little superscript 1 which from there you can delete. Sorry if this is either the wrong guess or too little too late.

This page was of help to me in muddling through it:
Delete a footnote, endnote, or separator