You’ve got a line
under a paragraph that you can’t get rid of. You’ve checked underlining and the
Style. You’ve deleted the final hard return, the pilcrow mark. But the line
persists.
The problem is likely
a border. Getting rid of it can be easy:
Place the
cursor in the offending paragraph.
On the Home
ribbon, look in the Paragraph group for the little grid, below the pilcrow
icon.
Click the
little down arrow on the right side of that grid icon.
Deselect
Bottom Border.
Troubleshooting
It might be a Top Border, if deselecting Bottom Border didn’t work, try placing the cursor in the paragraph below the line, then deselecting Top Border.
If the line keeps coming back, or is applied to every paragraph, check the Style settings for that text (usually Normal). The border may be specified right in the Style so Word keeps reapplying it, “helpfully.”
It’s possible to Select All of the document and deselect the border for all text in the document. This will also affect tables in the text but will not change the Style settings, so lines may appear in new paragraphs.
Curly quotation marks curve or slant inward toward the content they bracket. (The font or typeface choice determines how they look, precisely.) Straight quotation marks are… straight. Word can do either, but you have to set your preference.
Sometimes a table seems stuck in its alignment. No matter how many times you select the whole table and set paragraph alignment, it won’t budge. The trick is to drag the table using its grab point:
Hover over the table until the grab point pops up. That’s the 4-way arrow at the top left corner of the table.
Click on the grab point and drag the table where you want it.
Hover the cursor over a table to make the grab point appear.
To make sure the table aligns with the margins, reveal the ruler by checking the box on the View ribbon.
The pilcrow has marked the end of a paragraph since long before there were computers. The little backwards ¶ today is found hiding in documents, storing vital format information, and marking paragraph breaks.
Click the little pilcrow (¶) on Word’s Home ribbon to see all the behind-the-scenes formatting marks that make documents look good. But what are those marks? See the table for a list.
