Pam, you've probably never typed enough stars... if you do have the auto-format option turned on lots of ******** turns into a heavy dashed line.
Doing what Sara says stops it happening.
I once had a major essay stress because of an errant line that appeared 1 hour before the deadline and would not disappear. My solution was to press return a lot to make it go on to a new page all by itself. I didn't hand that page in.
Anna, these are things I wished I'd known then. First, I hope you've already tried this, but just in case, have you put the cursor just before or just after the line and tried pressing delete/backspace?
If that doesn't work, try going into Format:Borders and Shading and make sure the None box is highlighted. You might have to try putting the cursor in lots of different places, and selecting random bits of nothingness with this option, because sometimes it's not obvious what the border is a border
of.
And if that doesn't work, it might be that your stray line is actually a drawing object. Bring up the drawing toolbar (right-click on one of the other toolbars and select drawing), and then click on the arrow pointer button. Use this to draw a selection box around the line (make sure it includes the whole line), and see if that selects it. If it does, you can just press Delete to get rid of it.
If none of that works, I've run out of ideas...
I hope that makes sense, are you using a Greek version of MS Word? I'm not sure how different things are...
Helga
