To delete text or other items, such as graphics, in a word processor, all you have to do is select the item in question. Not so with the mysterious dotted lines, a Microsoft Word “autocorrect” function that sometimes appears in a document. It appears when you type a series of characters that Word interprets as a separator, such as a line of asterisks or dashes. However, unlike some other autocorrections, such as © for (c), Word’s substitution for the separator line is not a character, but a paragraph style. Remove the line by changing the paragraph style. Writer Bio
