Tip #4100 - Horizontal Borders/Dividers Using the Keyboard
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Horizontal
Borders/Dividers Using the Keyboard
Do you find yourself
constantly drawing horizontal lines in MS Word? You know, using the drawing
toolbar to draw lines as borders or dividers, in order to give your document
a little extra pizzazz.
Are you tired of all
the mouse work involved in the drawing toolbar? You know, turning on the
line tool, drawing the line and then changing the style.
Wish you had a faster way?
Maybe you'd like a
way that involves only the keyboard?
Well, if that sounds
good to you, I have a quick list of divider/border line options that only
take four keystrokes to accomplish.
Ready to find out how?
Good! Here they are.
Now, here's the really
cool part. Once the line is drawn, you can use your mouse to move it up
and down to alter its distance from the surrounding text. (You can't move
it all over the place, but it is enough to let you have some flexibility
in regards to the line's position near the text).
Simply run your mouse
cursor over the line, slowly, until it becomes a double-sided arrow (pointing
up and down). Once you have that arrow, click and hold the left mouse
button. Next, drag the line up or down as needed.
Note:
If this trick isn't working for you, you should check to make sure you
have this option turned on. To do this, you need to go to the
Tools menu, AutoCorrect choice. Then under the
AutoFormat As You Type tab, make sure the Borders
box is checked in the "Apply as you type" section of
the window. Click OK when you're finished.
Now, moving on.
What about the "Oops
Factor?"
You know, the line you now
need to remove.
It can be a bit of a pain if
you don't know what to do. Sometimes it's not as easy as simply hitting
the backspace or delete keys.
What you'll need to
do is highlight the text around the divider line so that
you have the border contained in the highlight, like this:
Now, go to the
Format menu, Borders and Shading choice.
Once there, go to
the Borders tab.
Make sure the None
box is selected (top of the left hand column) and click OK.
Poof! The line is
gone!
That's it. Divider
lines with just four keystrokes. Go ahead, jazz it up!
~ April
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