carolinet87703291

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Black lines appearing when placing MS Word document in InDesign CC

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
August 28, 2017
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I'm trying to place some book interior text from a MS Word Document into InDesign CC but whenever I do these black lines appear. They aren't visible in the MS Word document itself but even when I clear the formatting they still appear when placed in InDesign. I can't seem to get rid of them! Any ideas? Screenshot below:

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Correct answer Barb Binder

So, click in the text with the Type tool

Edit > Select all
Paragraph panel menu > Paragraph Rules
Disable Rule Above and/or Rule Below:

Participating Frequently

Sometimes texts can hold both of them: Rule Above & Rule Below.
Make sure remove them all!

dorinem38708703

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but where do i find the paragraph menu? i can't find it!

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Hi dorinem38708703:

Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph > Paragraph panel menu > Paragraph Rules

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Aideen22250688egxx

Participant

It worked! Thanks so much! I imported a program from Word and lines appeared on every page in InDesign.

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Correct answer

Community Expert

So, click in the text with the Type tool

Edit > Select all
Paragraph panel menu > Paragraph Rules
Disable Rule Above and/or Rule Below:

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

Participant

Thank you SO much, this has been driving me INSANE. Any clue what it is about the word doc would turn those on in Indesign?

Community Expert

Community Expert

Tough to say without seeing the files but it could be due to the default paragraph setting in InDesign.

Community Expert

Community Expert

Those look like paragraph rules.

dhafirp16891848

Inspiring

May be there is an Underline character, try to reset the Character Style to [None]