Making Horizontal Lines the Same Thickness

Question

I'm having difficulty with getting horizontal lines in a resume to be of uniform thickness.

When I highlight them and check the font and size, they appear to be identical. But the way they look on the screen and print out reflects a different thickness.

Any ideas/suggestions?

Answer 1

Go ahead and email it. Please provide a link to this thread in the email. I will provide the solution on the forum, though. (This forum is intended to be a resource as much as question and answer; that way others can benefit from your question and the solution.)

Tables are probably the easiest ways to lay out text where you have columns of information and something needs to be next to something else. The key to seeing the table structure is to click on a line in the resume and see if tabs for tables show up in the Ribbon. Click on the Layout tab that should appear on the far right end of the Ribbon and then click on View Gridlines on the far-left end of that tab.

That gives you access, too, to the Borders dialog.

Here is my page on Tables.

http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/tables.htm

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Answer 2

Hi

Most resumes in Word are built in Tables. What you are seeing are likely not horizontal lines as such but borders. The only way I can tell is to look at the actual document. If you want, save a sample document with the problem on OneDrive or Dropbox and paste a view link here. Remove any confidential or sensitive information first. I or someone else can take a look at it. You can use the Rand function in Word to generate random text if you need to. See Suzanne Barnhill's article at http://wordfaqs.ssbarnhill.com/DummyText.htm.

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Answer 3

Thank you so much for your prompt and conscientious response!

Would it be acceptable for me to email the document to the email ID you kindly provided?

As ignorant as it seems, I didn't realize that resumes in Word are created in tables. I think I need to figure out how that's done. In the meantime, though, it would be great to figure out a solution to the issue I'm facing at this moment.