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Remove line numbers

Applies to: Microsoft Office Word 2003

Switch to print layout view (print layout view: A view of a document or other object as it will appear when you print it. For example, items such as headers, footnotes, columns, and text boxes appear in their actual positions.).
If your document is divided into sections (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options. You create a new section when you want to change such properties as line numbering, number of columns, or headers and footers.), click in a section or select multiple sections from which you want to remove line numbers.
On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Layout tab.
In the Apply to box, select the option you want.
Click Line Numbers.
Clear the Add line numbering check box.

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If you select This point forward in the Apply to box, Microsoft Word will add a page break (page break: The point at which one page ends and another begins. Microsoft Word inserts an "automatic" (or soft) page break for you, or you can force a page break at a specific location by inserting a "manual" (or hard) page break.) before the unnumbered lines. If you don't want a page break, try suppressing line numbers instead (select the lines, and on the Format menu click Paragraphs, and then on the Line and Page Breaks tab, select the Suppress line numbers check box).