Lined pages in word

Whether you believe in having your employees sign on the dotted line or are going back to old-style printed forms, trying to insert a line in word document can be difficult even for the steadiest hand. But you can take advantage of Word’s collection of shapes, which includes a line-drawing tool, to quickly draw and duplicate straight lines. Use lines that stretch across a page to denote a place for paragraphs of writing or short lines where executives should be placing their signatures or initials.

Create a Lined Notebook Paper Template in Word

1. Open Word. If the program’s current default of a traditional 8.5 inch-by-11 inch paper doesn’t fit your lined document requirements, click the «Page Layout» tab. Click the “Size” button on the ribbon and choose your preferred document size. You can also click the “Orientation” button on the ribbon to change from Word’s default portrait, or vertical, size to landscape, which is wider than it is long.

2. Click the Insert tab, then click the “Shapes” button on the ribbon. Choose the first option, “Line,” under the “Lines” group. If you hover the cursor over the shapes, you’ll see the title of each shape pop up.

3. Position the cursor near the left margin but leave room so you do not run off the Word page onto the gray background. Press and hold the “Shift” key on the keyboard, then press and hold the left mouse button as you drag to the right side of the page. Release the “Shift” key and the left mouse button and the Word horizontal line appears.

4. Click the line to open the orange Drawing Tools tab. This is where you can format your line, such as changing its color, thickness and design by clicking the “Shape Outline” button on the ribbon. It’s beneficial to change your line’s design first, before you duplicate it, so you won’t have to reformat lines multiple times.

5. Right-click the line. You’ll see a green dot appear at each end of the line. Select “Copy.”

6. Click off the line, anywhere on the white Word page, and choose “Paste” or press “Ctrl-V.»

7. Drag the newly pasted line into place below the first. How you place your lines will vary. For example, you may want to leave enough space between lines for employees to write or for something to be typed in manually at a later time.

8. Drag the cursor to highlight the two lines. Right-click the highlight and select “Copy,” then click off the lines, right-click and select “Paste.” Two new lines paste in. Drag them into place.

9. Fill the Word document with lines, to your preference, by highlighting, copying and pasting. This saves you the time from having to redraw the lines and ensures they’re all the same length.

10. Add other elements to the lined document, such as a business logo, by clicking the “Picture” button on the Insert tab’s ribbon. Browse to the logo and double-click it. If you need to move the lines to fit the logo, highlight them with the cursor, then drag them all together so they keep their layout.

11. Click the File tab’s “Save As” option. Type a name for the lined document file, set the location to save the file and click the “Save” button.

Tip

The suggestions here go above and beyond what you may need for your Word lined document. Pick and choose what best suits your business, which may be simply lines on a page.

I’ve seen some sites offering printable lined paper and thought that was pretty silly until I wanted to use some lined paper and couldn’t find any. A while back we created some different types of printable graph paper templates using Word, so we used a similar technique to create some boring but useful lined paper (by adding borders to tables in Microsoft Word).

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Customizing the Lined Paper Template in Word

You can use the lined paper templates for Word to print your own lined paper with different line heights or line colors. The template was created using a Table, so to change the row heights or borders, select the rows or columns that you want to modify, then right-click on one of them and select Table Properties.

If you want to specify a row height in millimeters, but Word is displaying the heights in inches, then you can either do the math conversion yourself, or you can change the settings in Word to display dimensions in millimeters. To do that, go to File > Options > Advanced and under the Display options, change the «Show measurements in units of:» setting.

Note: These templates include a page margin because most printers won’t print to the extreme edge of the paper. That is why the lines do not extend all the way to the edges like they do on common notebook filler paper that you buy at the store.

References

• Ruled Paper Sizes — at wikipedia.com

You’re looking for a way to create a break in your page, maybe you are starting a new topic, or you’re adding a new section. Adding a horizontal line to your document clearly shows a reader that a new section within your document has begun without having to create a page break leaving a whole heap of empty space.

There are two different types of horizontal lines you can add:

1. Quick Autoformat Lines
2. Microsoft Horizontal Lines

The autoformat option is most commonly used and many of us discovered it by mistake.

——————————————————————————————————————– That’s one there ^ by holding down the hyphen key you can create a quick and easy horizontal line in Word.

There are a few variations of the auto format line to choose from, just type 3 or more of any of these symbols and press Enter to create a horizontal line.

Adding a Microsoft horizontal line is just as easy, but does take a few more steps. In this post, we will show you how to insert a horizontal line into your Microsoft Word Document.

Adding Horizontal Lines to your Microsoft Word Document

1. Open Word
2. Place your cursor where you would like to insert a horizontal line
3. Click the Design tab
4. Click Page Borders

1. In the Page Border pop-out window, click Horizontal Line

1. Select the Style of Horizontal Line you would like to insert
2. Press Insert

You have now successfully inserted a Horizontal line into your Microsoft Word Document.

If you would like to add multiple lines, simply follow the steps above.

Searching for a simpler way to work together on the same Word Document?

When it comes to collaborating together on a Microsoft Word Document with the aim of achieving a perfectly proofed final version. Why do we always end up with a shared drive full old versions and little clarity on which one is the most recent file?

You’re not along in thinking there has to be a simpler way to version control!

With so many of us facing the same frustrations, companies such as Simul Docs have jumped in to provide us with the simple version control solution we’ve been dreaming of.

Simul Docs is a purpose-built version control and collaboration tool for Microsoft Word documents, making it easy to work together on a word doc. Upload your draft word document into Simul and it will automatically give it a version number of 0.0.1.

Invite your colleagues to collaborate on the document with you, as soon as they open the document and start to make edits Simul will save the updated document as the next version and keep track of every edit, change and comment in the easy to navigate ‘Versions’ toolbar.

Now, not only are all of the old versions of your document tracked and sorted for you. Your shared drive isn’t a mess and you can easily refer back to an older version at any time with the click of a button.

When your team has finished making edits and you have accepted or declined any changes you can finalise the fine by pressing ‘Publish’. Simul will then allocate your final document a version number of 1.0.0 (rather than 0.0.1) and allows you to download it as a PDF, share via a sharable link, export to file services such as dropbox and more.

With a finalised document in hand and all of your old versions neatly stored away you can rest easy knowing you will never waste time sorting through your share drive on the hunt for a v6_updated_Bobsedits_FINAL_Finalv3 again.

Is that really the final version? Only Simul Docs knows.