Lee Stanton Read more March 26, 2021

If you’re working on your resume, a business document, or something else in Word, you may want to know how to insert a horizontal line to spruce up your work.

In this article, we’ll show you the quickest and easiest ways to add perfect horizontal lines to your Word documents. Plus, our FAQ section covers how to achieve horizontal lines in WordPress, and answers to the most commonly asked questions.

The quickest way to insert a horizontal line using Word is with “AutoFormat.” It works by typing specific characters three times then pressing “Enter” to turn the characters into a horizontal line:

Note: AutoFormat features are not available in Office Offline.

Or use the “Horizontal Line” tool:

Or to draw a horizontal line:

The quickest way to insert a horizontal line using Word on your Mac is with “AutoFormat.” It works by typing specific characters three times then pressing “Enter” to turn the characters into a horizontal line:

Note: AutoFormat features are not available in Office Offline.

Or use the “Horizontal Line” tool:

Or to draw a horizontal line:

The quickest way to insert a horizontal line using Word in Windows is with “AutoFormat.” It works by typing specific characters three times then pressing “Enter” to turn the characters into a horizontal line:

Note: AutoFormat features are not available in Office Offline.

Or use the “Horizontal Line” tool:

Or to draw a horizontal line:

Here are two options for inserting a horizontal line into your Online Word document:

Use the “Horizontal Line” Tool:

To draw a horizontal line using Word:

2. Select the “Insert” tab, then “Shapes.”

3. From “Lines,” select the style you want.

4. On the document, select the place to add the line.

5. To draw the line, hold and drag your cursor, releasing it at the end.

Or to add a line freehand:

6. Hold down “Shift” + underline key; release once you’ve got the length required.

The following explains two ways to insert a vertical line in Word:

1. From the document, select the “Insert” tab.

2. Select the “Shapes” icon, then select a line shape.

3. At the place you want your line to begin, click and hold down on your mouse button.

4. Drag your mouse to where the line should end, then release the mouse button.

Create Multiple Lines Using Tables

1. From the main menu, select “Insert” then ‘Table…”

2. At “Number of columns” enter the number of vertical lines you need.

3. At “Number of rows” enter “1.”

4. The table will be inserted.

5. Then from the “Borders” pull-down menu in “Table Design,” uncheck “Outside Borders,” leaving the “inside vertical borders” checked.

If you want to add multiple horizontal lines in Word to add text to, use border lines:

1. Open the document you wish to add the horizontal lines to.

2. From the standard toolbar select the “Format” button > “Borders and Shading.”

3. Select the “Border” tab.

4. From “Style”, select the line style width and color.

5. On the document, click where you wish to add the line.

6. To insert different colored lines and styles select “Horizontal Line.”

7. To position the line a certain distance from the text, select “Options” from the “Borders and Shading” window.

For multiple horizontal lines to be written on after printing, use tabbed lines:

1. Select “View” > “Ruler.”

2. From the Standard Toolbar check the “Ruler” box.

3. From the main Word menu, select “Format,” then “Tabs….”

4. In the “Tab Window” select “Clear all tabs.”

5. From the “Tab Stop” window, set a tab for where the right margin should end e.g. 6.0 inches.

6. Under “Alignment,” select “Right.”

7. In “Leader,” select one of the numbers listed for a straight line.

8. Click on “OK” then keep pressing the “Tab” key to insert a straight line.

9. Copy and Paste the lines or keep pressing “Tab” until you have the number of lines you want.

Here are three ways to insert a horizontal line into a blog post in WordPress:

1. Sign in to WordPress and access a new/existing post to work on.

2. To add a new block where the line should be, select the “+” icon.

3. From the “Layout Elements” section, select the “Separator block.”

4. Add the horizontal line to your content area.

1. Sign in to WordPress and access a new/existing post to work on.

2. Above the post editor, if in the toolbar you only see one row of buttons, select the Toggle icon on the right to access the row with the horizontal line option.

3. Select the area where you need the line to go then, select the “Horizontal Line” button.

Use the Horizontal Line Divider With HTML

· Simply add the <hr> tag to your post’s content in the position where the line should be inserted.

Word supports various ways of inserting lines into your documents to break up sections, for a neater layout, and to make them visually appealing and unique.

What method did you use to insert your horizontal or vertical line[s]? Did it achieve the look you wanted? We’d love to hear how your document turned out, let us know in the comments section below.

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