If you often work in Word, sooner or later you will need to create a horizontal line above or below the text. This is very handy when you want to make a template for a specific document.

There are many ways to do this in Word, but we will consider the simplest ways to solve this problem.

Horizontal lines in Word 2003

First, set the cursor to the desired location. Go to the "Format" menu and select the "Borders and Shading" item there. Select the desired line in the "Type" menu and click "OK". Now the line we have chosen will belong to the entire paragraph. If you only need a certain part of the row, then it is best to use cell insertion. There you will also need to mark the visible and invisible lines.

Horizontal lines in Word 2007 and above

In this version of Word, a horizontal line can be drawn in several ways. If you just need underlined text, then you can use the "H" button in the "Home" section. Simply and easily.

To create a line from top, left, right(vertical), you need to go to the "Paragraph" section and open the "Borders" menu. Here you can select the line you need, after which you can safely type text. It will be typed already with the line.

With this approach, it is important not to forget that the "Enter" key will remove the line. Therefore, you need to move around the document exclusively on the "arrows".

If you need a subline, but without text, you can do it simply by holding down the "Shift" key while pressing the required number of times on the "-" key. You will get a line like "______" without text.
Now you can draw horizontal lines in Word.

In ordinary text in Word, lines are used quite rarely, but they are indispensable when drawing up various forms or forms. It is quite simple to underline a ready-made text, but when compiling forms, you need to underline the empty space, and given that this form will be filled out electronically, the usual underlining is indispensable here. Next, we will look at how to make a line in the Word in various ways, from which everyone can choose the appropriate option for themselves.

The easiest way to make a line under text in Word is to use the underline text menu. You can underline text and tabs in this way. But to use such an underline to place a line on an empty space, i.e. it is extremely inconvenient to create fields for further text input with such lines. When text is written on such a line, underlining will be applied to it, but all further text will move, which can immediately disrupt the structure of the document.

To make such a simple text underline is necessary on the tab "Home" In chapter "Font" find icon "Underline Text", and click on it. The text selected in advance will become underlined, and all further typed text will also be underlined.

If you click on the down arrow, you can choose different styles of underlining and even the color of the line.

The next way to make a line in Word is to use the underscore character found on the keyboard. To do this, press the key "shift" and clicking the underscore icon «_» draw a line of the required length. But such a line is also far from ideal. Writing on such a line in Word will not work, and it does not match the level of the usual text underlining.

A more suitable way to make a line in Word for a signature is to use a table cell in which you only need to leave the bottom border visible. In this case, some problems may arise with the positioning of a single cell, but for the sake of being able to fill in the underlined area of ​​the document in electronic form, you can try. You just need to insert a single cell table and adjust its placement, size, and borders.

Well, the last way to draw a line in Word, on which you can write, is simply to draw a line as a separate object. To do this, go to the tab "Insert" and find the point "Shapes" In chapter "Illustrations". In the figures we find the usual line, click on it and draw in the right place on the sheet. If you hold down the key while drawing a line "shift", then the line will be horizontal. If necessary, the line can be further configured in the corresponding menu.

A fairly common question regarding working in Word is creating a line. About what line in question? Bold, solid, dotted, horizontal, vertical? What is the function of such a line? It is difficult to give one answer to all these questions. Therefore, we will consider ways to create various lines in the Word program.

How to make an underline in text?

If you have written text and you need to draw a straight line under it or underline a word or sentence, Word has a special underlining tool. To apply it, follow these steps:

• Highlight the bottom sentence, the word to be underlined.

• In this case, we underlined the last line. A line appeared below it.

How to make a bold, dotted or double line in Word?

In order to create a thick line, double or dashed, you should use the following methods:

• If a bold or double line should underline the text, select the underline tool. If you click the arrow next to it, options for different lines will appear. Choose bold, dotted, double or other format.

• If the thick line should be outside the text, select the Borders tool. Choose the location of the line.

• By clicking on it with the right mouse button, we specify the color, thickness and size of the line.

How to make a solid line or line under text?

There is another button on the toolbar that can be used to create a full width solid line or a line below text.

• We put the cursor after the line under which you want to draw a solid line.

• In the "Home" tab, select the "Borders" button.

• In this case, we need to put a line between the text. Select "Inner" border. If the line needs to be put at the end of the text - "Bottom line".

How to make horizontal and vertical lines?

Smooth horizontal and vertical lines can be created in the previous way using the "Borders" tool. It has both horizontal and vertical line options. If the line needs to be drawn in an arbitrary order, we use the following method.

• Go to the "Insert" tab and select "Shapes".

• Select "Lines" from the pop-up menu.

• Select the type of line and draw it in the desired direction.

How to make a straight line?

There is a button on the number row of the keyboard that represents a dash. If you hold down the "Ctrl + dash" key, a straight line will appear.

However, this method is not suitable for underlining text.

How to make a signature line?

In order to make a signature line in Word, you should do the following:

• Click "Insert" and select the "Signature Line" icon.

• A new window will open. Enter the face information and click OK.

• If the signature position does not suit you, select the signature area and change the position in the text.

How to make a table line?

In order to make a table line in Word or draw a table using lines, do the following:

• Click "Insert", "Table", "Draw Table".

• A pencil will appear on the sheet, and the borders of the table will appear on the ruler.

• We draw a table and lines in it.

If you need to add a line to the finished table, you can use the insert function.

Or select the table, click "Designer", select "Draw table" and add the desired line with a pencil.

How to make a line invisible?

For a line to be invisible in Word, it must be part of a table.

• Draw a table and fill it with text or numbers.

• Select "Constructor", "Borders" and set "No border".

• The table lines will become invisible.

When you work with the Microsoft Word program, you may very often need various separators in the form of lines. In this article, we will tell you how to make a line in Word in various ways.

1. The easiest way is to make an underline. To do this, go to the "Home" tab and click on the icon with the letter H. This will activate the text underlining. After that, all selected text will be underlined from below.

You can also "underline" an empty area. To do this, activate the text underline icon (letter "H") and press the Tab key on the keyboard several times.

You can set the type of underline and choose its color.

2. Also a very simple way and effective. To do this, just hold down the Shift key and press the space bar.

3. To draw a full-width line above or below a line, you can use the border tool, which is more commonly used to set page borders. The line can be either horizontal or vertical.

4. If you need to underline in various forms or complex texts, tables should be used. You can set them up so that one part is invisible and the other is set to underline.

Click on the table and select Borders and Shading. Set up the table so that some lines are visible and others are invisible

5. You can simply draw a line in Word. To do this, go to the "Insert" tab and in the "Shapes" column, select the "Line" item. To make the line horizontal, hold down the Shift key.

Working in Word, sooner or later everyone wonders how to make a subscript or superscript line. Especially often this function is in demand when creating templates for documents. Note that there are many ways, and we will consider the most convenient and popular.

Lines below and above text in Word 2007

• We put the cursor on the place where the intended text with the line will be located. On the "Home" tab, we find the "Paragraph" section and the "Bottom Border" subsection, select the desired border type and enter the text. Move to a new line with the arrows, not "Enter".
• An underline can be created using the Underline button in the Fonts section of the Home.
• If the line is needed without text, put the cursor in the required place and hold down the "Shift" and "-" buttons until the required length is produced.

Making lines in Word 2003

• We put the cursor in the required place. From the Format menu, select Borders and Shading. We find a suitable line in the types, indicate its upper or lower location. We confirm "OK". The line will belong to the entire paragraph.
• If only part of the line is needed, it is better to use the insertion of a table (its cells), in which invisible and visible lines should be marked.

Don't overuse lines. Use them as needed.
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