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It is pretty sure no one exactly knows the complete features Word offers.

Adding dividers is one such hidden features and you can do this with shortcuts.

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In this article we will show how to add dividers in Microsoft Word documents quickly.

You can continuously press hyphen or underscore to insert the divider line between paragraphs.

The advantage is that you can define the length and alignment of the divider as per your need.

This will create a full width divider as a thin continuous line.

Press three asterisks and enter ( and ) to if you want a dotted line.

Use three equal signs and enter ( and ) to add a double line.

Use three underscores and enter ( and ) to make a divider with medium thickness.

Type three number signs and enter key ( and ) to create a thicker line with borders.

And finally with three tildes and enter ( and ) to create a wavy divider line.

You may find it difficult to delete the dividers since those dividers are not actually lines they are borders act like an underline.

Follow the below instructions in order to delete the dividers.

If you have an element like paragraph before the divider then select the paragraph.

Click on the Home tab and then the Border button in the Paragraph group.

You can create suitable images and insert between elements as an object.

Check out the collection of free divider images with thin and thick sizes to choose the good style for your document.

However, this option varies in Word 2016 onwards and earlier versions.

If you want to insert a fancy divider, choose the menu option click on the Horizontal Line button.

On the popup box, select the divider style you want to insert.

Choose Horizontal Line option to insert a grey color divider line.

Choose the color, alignment, width and height for your divider.

Unlike dividers inserted with shortcuts, you can move the horizontal lines by dragging.

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