drawing lines in text box

[Jaque Peterson]

I have scanned a price list and want to manipulate it.
The only way I can find to do that is to insert a text
box and then type in the numbers I want. I want to add
horizontal lines, and sometimes they work fine. But
sometimes instead of showing me the line I've just drawn,
I get a fuzzy box around the whole page and circles for
the beginning and end of the line. Why does it work
sometimes and not other times? What am I missing?

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Jaque,

I have scanned a price list and want to manipulate it.
The only way I can find to do that is to insert a text
box and then type in the numbers I want. I want to add
horizontal lines, and sometimes they work fine. But
sometimes instead of showing me the line I've just drawn,
I get a fuzzy box around the whole page and circles for
the beginning and end of the line. Why does it work
sometimes and not other times? What am I missing?

We're missing which version of Word we're dealing with?

Is this scanned price list a single graphic? Or was it
scanned as text, and the text is in lots of little boxes?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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