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Earlier today I was writing a paper in Microsoft’s Word (part of the Office 2007 suite) and I needed to insert a horizontal line that spanned left margin to right margin. While trying to figure this out I came across this simple trick. To add a basic horizontal line simply type three consecutive dashes followed immediately by the return key. Word interprets this as a horizontal line. There are several other combinations that work, as you can see in the image below. In each case it is three symbols then press return! Nice and easy.