Word 2007 Footer problem

[clut]

Hi,

I'm writing a document, and when I add a footer, it puts a horizontal double line along the top of my footer for me.

I don't want this line there between the footer and the main page, but I just can't seem to get rid of it (short of getting rid of the whole footer).

When I try to insert a blank footer, I still get this horizontal line.

Can anyone help??

 

[sumit.dpfoc]

HI All,

TheAtHomeCouple has provided an excellent solution but if I get this problem I would like to reinstall the software. That will also solve all other problems but I really appreciate his knowledge.

Thanks for sharing the solution.

 

[ger000]

Hi Elijah

Was also pulling out my hair because of this problem. Joined just to say many thanks for your great reply.


-Greg

 

[joseph.lankford]

Just wanted to say I think the purpose was to delete the footer if you have tried the traditional method of clicking the "delete footer" option when the header/footer menu is selected with no avail? which none of these answers delete the footer to my knowledge, maybe I'm wrong.

I believe this problem for me arose due to formatting that was included in a downloadable resume template I used.

The only way i was able to decrease the space the footer took was by going to page layout and clicking on margins, then custom margins and decrease the bottom margin to 0. This will allow you to type to the bottom of the page if desired, however it will tell you that this is beyond the area available for printing which you must accept and understand this may not be desirable for all documents.

Please note you may need to print a test page or two in order to gauge what it actually will look like on paper, however for my resume it still left about .5 inch from the bottom.

 

[kimba-lion]

Regarding the "How to remove the horizontal line from MS Word" problem.


One Word makes this problem different for many. That word is FOOTER. When the horizontal line is in a footer it is more of a *****. But it can be done! Read on.


Having now spent the better part of a day (endless blog surfing and Google queries) dealing with this problem (in MS Word 2007), I want to point out that a number of people in the replies were suffering the same problem as me - but it was NOT being solved by the solutions posted. As far as I know it has not been answered adequately on ANY of the forums. The problem was a horizontal line being automatically placed in the FOOTER section of the document.

Let me be clear - it is NOT a footnote separator issue.

It IS (ultimately ... ) a border clearing issue BUT, as was noted several times, highlighting the little one could of the line (in my case next to the page number) and then selecting "no borders" did NOT get rid of the line. BUT, it did something odd. In my case it jumped the line DOWN so it appeared BELOW (instead of above) my page number. But the goddamn line was STILL there! At this point I was pretty much ready to give up. Some people have reported that it jumped the line up. It would appear that it jumps the line up and down – the important thing is that the line moves.

BECAUSE - this weird wrinkle turned out to be a blessing, BECAUSE, it meant I could now highlight the page number (now above the line), the dreaded horizontal line, AS WELL as the space BELOW the dreaded line. At this point, selecting the "no borders" option once more – finally deleted the line. FINALLY!!!!!

Repeating this once on another page saw it disappear on every one of my 365 page footers. Allelujah.

Feel free to post this on your site as an update - it may save many others time and PAIN. BTW, I am not a tech or MS Word guru by any means - I just got luck with trial and error - eventually. I hope it works for others out there.

 

[mentat]

i do not apologize for ribbons and their non-intuitive layout.

1. click on the footer

2. go to the page layout tab

3. in the page background ribbon, click on Page Borders

4. un-click the border you want removed.

how that line even got in my footer, i have no idea.

 

[kittenlake]

Thank you, Mentat. We had already tried the regular border thing before finding this forum. Glad I clicked on pg 2 and scrolled all the eway down to the bottom of the page, where I found your post--and relief!!!!