A Very Simple MS Word Trick

How do you draw a simple line across the page in Word? Hold down the underline key until the line is drawn? You're so old fashioned! Try this.

Place the cursor at the beginning of a new line
Push the hyphen key 3 times (-)
Hit the enter key

Cool, you now have a line across the page. Want more? Follow the directions above substituting these characters for the hyphen

underline (_) = thick black line
equals sign (=) = double line
asterisk (*) = dotted line
tilde (~) = wavy line
number symbol (#) = thick line with a smaller line above and below it

These functions work in Word 2000, 2002 and 2003. Now get to work creating some cool looking documents!