• Place your cursor in the spot where you'd like to insert a line. • Click on Home, located in the upper left-hand corner. • Locate the Borders button, found in the Paragraph section. Click on the down arrow accompanying this button. • When the drop-down menu appears, select the Horizontal Line option. • A basic horizontal line should now appear in your document. Double-click on the line if you'd like to edit its appearance.

• If you chose to double-click, the Format Horizontal Line dialog should now be displayed. From here you can modify the width, height, and color of your line as well as adjust its alignment. • You can also resize or move your line by clicking on it once and dragging the entire line to another location or dragging the sizing arrows accordingly.

Microsoft Word has a feature called ‘overtype’ which annoys many of the users that I meet through my assistive technology assessments and training sessions. Normally when you type into a document any letters that are in front of the current cursor position get pushed forward as you start typing.