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| January 25, 2007 | Nott, Tim | COPYRIGHT 2007 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Tim Nott

Border control

Take a look at borders, and gather some useful word processing tips

Reader Brian Tunbridge, using Word 2000, found that typing three asterisks between paragraphs produced a row of small squares when he hit the Return key. This was fine in some situations, and he found he could also cut and paste the paragraph and the row of squares elsewhere in the document. However, he often found he wasn't able to delete the row.

That is because this isn't a row of characters or shapes, but a border -- part of the preceding paragraph's formatting. You can achieve a similar effect manually from Format, Borders and ...

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