Strange lines in Word Docs

[DanTheMon]

I wonder if anyone can help with this annoying puzzle.

I've got a very long Word doc (500 pages) that had a dozen or so horizontal lines in it spread throughout the document. I vaguely remembered what caused these lines to appear and checked with MS Knowledge Base. They're caused by autoformatting - if you put three dashes or three equal symbols, etc., in a Word doc and hit Enter Word creates a line. Sometimes it seems to create what looks like a border line that you can move up and down with small grab handles. Now I got rid of most of these lines by either deleting them, or when they wouldn't be deleted, marking out the affected text and washing it through Note Pad (removing the code in the paragraph by cutting and pasting it).

But one of these lines, with the small grab handles and a dotted appearance, refuses to go. It is not a table, a border - or seemingly any other kind of known life form! It will not be deleted, washed by Note Pad, or othewise removed. And it is annoying the hell out of me! Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

DanTheMan
amitygrove@hotmail.com

[Iman74]

Try taking autocorrecting off, and spellchecker. The longer the document the harder it works. The harder it works the worse the performance gets.

[DanTheMon]

Yip, I removed autocorrect but the mysterious line is still in the doc and it's the getting rid of it (removing the line, or just finding out what the line is) that's bothering me.