Some people have reported that it jumped the line up. But the *censored* line was STILL there! At this point I was pretty much ready to give up. In my case it jumped the line DOWN so it appeared BELOW (instead of above) my page number. ) 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. Let me be clear - it is NOT a footnote separator issue. The problem was a horizontal line being automatically placed in the FOOTER section of the document. As far as I know it has not been answered adequately on ANY of the forums. 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.

When the horizontal line is in a footer it is more of a *censored*. One Word makes this problem different for many. Regarding the 'How to remove the horizontal line from MS Word' problem.

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