Perhaps that was because I had not selected all and only the under-bordered paragraphs.įor future, I'd encourage people having this problem to examine a potentially large number of paragraphs before and perhaps after the problem paragraph and determine where the paragraphs start having the under-border trait. Trying to select a number of paragraphs and remove it in bulk had not worked earlier. I had to do it to each under-bordered paragraph individually. To make a long story a little longer, I was able to remove the under-border from 20 or so paragraphs and finally get it out of the document. I started examining the cut-and-paste document and, perhaps because this was a smaller and more manageable chunk of text than the original document, was able to find the paragraph where the under-border started. In the process, one of the two under-border lines disappeared from the problem section. However, this time in preparation for uploading a sample I did something different: I cut and pasted the problem section into a new document. I should have said I had already tried everything suggested in this thread, plus a few others, some possibly involving a live goat and a full moon. If this does not work, upload a small example file (128kB max) for someone to have a look at it - use the Upload Attachment tab below where you write your post. I think it should be the default when AOO is installed, and when AOO opens a document as it is so useful, but so few newcomers know about it. Setting View > Show hidden characters helps greatly in this (and many other problems).

it will remove all the borders in the selection - including the unwanted ones. Now remove the borders in the selected paragraphs by Foormat > Paragraph > Borders.

It is easier to select from before the line(s) to after the line(s) including the unwanted line(s). If you delete the paragraph with the border, the border just moves up (down?) to the previous (next?) paragraph because the default setting is for text to take on the preceding paragraph's attributes. So, to remove it, you must have the cursor in the paragraph in question before removing the border. The horizontal line is either the top border of a paragraph, or the bottom border of a paragraph.

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