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Christopher Farley
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Nov 5, 2019

Good morning everyone.

I translated a document (CafeTran) from a Word document which was a converted (and scanned) PDF original. That original had vertical lines either side of the text and my translation has followed suit. The only problem now is that I have to merge the original and translated documents in a two column document and I can't get rid of the lines on my translated document.

Any advice please?

Thank you.
 
Samuel Murray
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Maybe... Nov 5, 2019

Christopher Farley wrote:
That original had vertical lines either side of the text...


MS Word sometimes creates lines by creating a style that includes the line as a border (e.g. if you type -----, MS Word sometimes converts it to a long line that you will not be able to delete, because it is actually a paragraph with a border).

Have a look here:
https://www.howtogeek.com/217924/how-to-remove-automatic-horizontal-lines-in-word/

In Word, go to the "styles" and see if you can find a style that adds the line. Delete the style.

remove solid line
 
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AOO/LO Writer Nov 5, 2019

Try opening the document in Apache OpenOffice / LibreOffice Writer, open the Navigator (F5) and see the list of objects available. Or simply try to click on the lines to select and delete.

Kevin Fulton
 
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Translating documents from a scanned original source Nov 5, 2019

Thank you Samuel, that seems to have done the trick.
 


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