I found the answer!
The problem was in STYLES.
Selected all text, opened style palette - modify style, then at the bottom format/border and checked NO BORDER and the lines disappeared!
I am in desperate need of help here! I use Word 2003 and am working on a very large document of 60,000 words. I opened it the other day and on it have appeared several double-lined horizontal lines which refuse to delete no matter what I do. I tried printing a page and the line prints.
I have tried everything within my knowledge to delete these lines. I have even tried copying and pasting the text into a new doc, an RTF doc, etc. Seems the ONLY way I can rid myself of these lines is to copy and paste into a Notepad or Wordpad, but I don't want to do that because the 60,000 words are nicely formatted and - more importantly- have 300 footnotes which would be stripped out by converting the doc into Wordpad and back to word.
Please can someone help, I am at my wits' end!
Helena

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