MS Word gurus?

[peppermintesse]

I'm a touch on the frustrated side with a formatting issue in Word..

While writing, I pasted in some Japanese characters. Now, on every subsequent page, there's a line rule just under the text, above the page numbers. It's not part of the footer, and if I delete it then hit enter again, it magically reappears. It cannot be selected.

I'm on Mac OS X 10.4.5, using Word 11.2.

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This is page 58, before the insertion of the Japanese block.

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...and this is after.

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See? It isn't in the code, nor is it in the footer.

Any suggestions for what ticky box I might have to uncheck or what auto-formatting setting to look for is much appreciated.

Comments

[bride.livejournal.com]

I made a line like that by going to Format->Borders and Shading. It's a bottom border on the paragraph.

1. Press CTRL-A to select all the text in your entire document.
2. Go to Format->Borders and Shading.
3. In the Borders tab, choose the "None" setting.
4. Click "OK".

See if that kills it...

May I ask an unrelated question about Word?

[sidravitale]

I'm new to the Mac, and I don't have MS Office, and I may be eligible for a student discount, so I'm thinking about it picking it up.

There's some stuff I need to be able to do that's scholarly-article-specific. Footnotes with text in smallcaps but not allcaps, and Word's change-tracking or revision-tracking -- does it exist?