Word Tip: Drawing Lines in Word

To quickly draw a horizontal line in your Word document, type three hyphens (-) in a row, then press Enter.

You can draw other line styles using this same technique, only with different characters.

  • Hyphen ( – ): standard line
  • Underscore ( _ ): thick line
  • Equal sign ( = ): parallel lines
  • Tilde ( ~ ): zig-zag line
  • Pound ( # ): ridge line
  • Asterisk ( * ): dotted line
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