After almost 22 years of making Microsoft Office for various platforms, Microsoft has bafflingly never provided an Insert > Horizontal Line option. The ‘three dashes and enter’ trick does not work on Office for Mac 2011.

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I'm trying to replicate the lines/dividers used in this sample rsum: I can't figure out how to position the horizontal lines just right (i.e., I can move them, but they won't drag into exactly the right position I want) and I can't figure out how to make those sideways, stretched-out bracket-looking things. I'm using Word for Mac 2008. Is it just me or are all the line features in Word totally unhelpful and hard to use? Hi Rachel: Well, they left out half of Word's graphics abilities in the shift to 2008, so they are not ideal, although they're not as bad as you might think.

However, in the interests of getting you straight to your goal without spending too much time, let's race right ahead and note that the graphics in your sample are 'not' graphics:-) Those are one-cell tables, with the bottom line switched off. Below the heading, add a single cell table: full width of the page, with the borders set to half a point all round. Set the table 'inline with text so it sits neatly on the paragraph below the heading (turn on your Show/Hide so you can see what you're doing). Then click in the cell, go to Borders and Shading and switch off the bottom border. Now copy what you just made and drop it below the other two headings job's done:-) Hope this helps On 3/04/10 8:38 AM, in article 59bb664d.-1@webcrossing.JaKIaxP2ac0, 'rachel137@officeformac.com' wrote: > Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel I'm > trying to replicate the lines/dividers used in this sample rsum: > > > I can't figure out how to position the horizontal lines just right (i.e., I > can move them, but they won't drag into exactly the right position I want) and > I can't figure out how to make those sideways, stretched-out bracket-looking > things. > > I'm using Word for Mac 2008. Is it just me or are all the line features in > Word totally unhelpful and hard to use?

This email is my business email -- Please do not email me about forum matters unless you intend to pay! -- John McGhie, Microsoft MVP (Word, Mac Word); Consultant Technical Writer, McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia. Ph: +61 (0)4 1209 1410; mailto:john@mcghie.name.

At this time, Grammarly does not offer an add-in for MS Word or Pages for macOS users. However, you can go to the Apps section in your Grammarly editor and download a native desktop app for Mac. Also, you can use Grammarly’s browser extension for Safari, Chrome, or Firefox on a Mac. Now, Open Microsoft Word or Outlook & you’ll see the Grammarly option in the Menubar. Now, Activate this add-in to work on Microsoft Word & Outlook to make your content proofread. Add-In feature of Grammarly will also show you some unnecessary words that can be removed from your content, or you can also ignore them and keep those words in your article. Does Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac OS have a plug-in available for Grammarly? Is there an additional service you use. I am being asked to edit a book and wish to run it through a wider style guide than is available. Dangling modifiers? Wordy sentences? A thing of the past. Grammarly catches over ten times more critical grammar and spelling errors than Microsoft Word. Together you’ll make a great team. Does grammarly work with word for mac. Before you download and install Grammarly for Microsoft Office, make sure Grammarly supports your operating system: Windows 7 Windows 8, Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Parallels (Windows OS on a Mac computer) Supported versions of Office: Microsoft Office 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016. User Guide: Getting Started. Opening Grammarly.

John McGhie, you're a genious! You're absolutely right that the lines in the sample rsum are table borders--I don't know why I wasn't able to perceive it that way on my own. I wasn't quite sure how to 'Set the table inline with text' or 'turn on your Show/Hide so you can see what you're doing,' like you suggested, but regardless, I was easily able to create the one-cell tables and turn off the lower borders, and the alignment is fine. > Hi Rachel: > > Well, they left out half of Word's graphics abilities in the shift to 2008, > so they are not ideal, although they're not as bad as you might think. > > However, in the interests of getting you straight to your goal without > spending too much time, let's race right ahead and note that the graphics in > your sample are 'not' graphics:-) > > Those are one-cell tables, with the bottom line switched off. > > Below the heading, add a single cell table: full width of the page, with the > borders set to half a point all round. Set the table 'inline with text so > it sits neatly on the paragraph below the heading (turn on your Show/Hide so > you can see what you're doing).

> > Then click in the cell, go to Borders and Shading and switch off the bottom > border. John is going to get the *big head* tonight. He has been called a genius = in two different news groups in the same afternoon.:-) But you'd be right. Of Course there are several that hang around in the=20 Mac Office newsgroups.