Google Docs Horizontal Line

While working with Google Docs, you should have an idea of making lines in Google Docs. Coming horizontal lines, Horizontal lines are quite important. A horizontal line helps you to improve the look of your document to separate the document in case the document is lengthy. So, it’s better to add a horizontal line in Google Docs to make your document more organized.

How to insert a horizontal line in Google Docs

Well, it’s very easy. Here we will discuss multiple approaches for adding a horizontal line in Google Docs.

• Approach-1: Using Insert Menu
• Approach-2: Using Drawing Option
• Approach-3: By using paragraph borders
• Approach-4: Using Google Docs horizontal line shortcut

Approach-1: Using Insert Menu to add a horizontal line in Google Docs

If you want to insert a simple horizontal line quickly, you can use the Insert option. An important point to note down here is, you don’t have many customization options available to format the horizontal line.

This is the basic option when you need a simple horizontal line very quickly. Follow the below quick steps to add a horizontal line on Google Docs.

1. Open your Google Docs document where you want to make the horizontal line. You can also create a new document by navigating to https://docs.google.com/ and clicking on the Blank (+) button.

2. Click on the Insert menu –> Select the Horizontal line option as shown below.

3. The horizontal line has been added successfully as shown below.

Now, when you have used the insert menu to add the horizontal line if you want to customize this horizontal line, you have the only option to change the line’s background color.

To change the background color, select the line and click on the Highlight color option –> Select the desired color from the list based on your need.

Well, let’s discuss approach-2 to insert a horizontal line in Google Docs where you will have more customization options than approach-1.

Approach-2: Using Drawing Option

You can also easily make a horizontal line in Google Docs using the Drawing option. As discussed above, you will have more customization options here. You can make different types of horizontal lines using this approach.

Follow the below steps to add a horizontal line on Google Docs.

1. Open your Google Docs document where you want to make the horizontal line. You can also create a new document by navigating to https://docs.google.com/ and clicking on the Blank (+) button.
2. Click on the Insert menu –> Select the Drawing option –> Click on the + New button as highlighted below.

3. On the Drawing window, select the line option and draw the line based on your need.

How to change horizontal line color in Google Docs

To format a horizontal line in Google Docs, for instance, if you want to change Google Docs horizontal line color, you need to select the line color button –> Choose the color from the list based on your requirement.

Google Docs horizontal line thickness (Approach-1)

To make the horizontal line thicker in Google Docs, select the line, click the line weight button –> select 1px, 2px, etc, from the list based on your need.

If you want to change the line type to line dash, then you can click on the Line dash button –> select the format of the line you want.

You can also add the line start and line end like an arrow by clicking on the Line start and Line end buttons.

Once you finish formatting, click the Save and Close button to save the changes and add the horizontal line to your Google Docs document.

We have discussed two approaches on how to insert a horizontal line in Google Docs. Let’s discuss another approach to make a horizontal line in Google Docs.

Approach-3: By using paragraph borders

Follow the below steps to insert a horizontal line in Google Docs.

1. Open the Google Docs Document where you want to add the horizontal line.
2. Click on the Format tab –> Select Paragraph Styles –> Choose the Borders and Shading option.

3. On the Borders and Shading window, select the position of the border. It could be the top, bottom, or Between border option, which will be the horizontal line.

how to edit horizontal line in Google Docs

If you want to edit or format the line, you can change the width, color, type, etc.

Google Docs horizontal line thickness (Approach-2)

To change the width of the border or the thickness of the horizontal line, click on the Border width dropdown and select 0pt,0.5pt, 1pt, etc from the list of available options based on your need.

Well, to change the Border color, click on the Border color dropdown and choose the color from the list of available colors.

To change the type of the border, like dotted line, dash line, etc, you need to click on the Border dash option and choose the available types as shown below.

Once, you are done with all the formatting options required for you, finally click on the Apply button to save the changes and to add the border or horizontal line to your Google Docs document.

Approach-4: Using Google Docs horizontal line shortcut

For Windows: Press ALT + I and then press r

For Mac: Press ctrl + option + I and then press r

How to remove horizontal line in Google Docs

Select the horizontal line –> Press the Delete key or Backspace key from your keyboard to remove the horizontal line in Google Docs. One more approach to delete horizontal line in Google Docs is to highlight the horizontal line –> Right click –> Select the delete option as highlighted below.

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• How To Make A Vertical Line In Google Docs

Conclusion

Voila! You’ve just learned Google Docs Horizontal Line, and you saw it’s quite easy to insert a horizontal line in Google Docs, etc. Now, it’s your turn to add a horizontal line to your Google Docs document and give it better readability. I hope you have enjoyed this article !!!

Rajkishore Sahoo

I am Rajkishore, and I have over 14 years of experience in the Software Industry.  For a long time, I have been using Google Docs, Google Drive, and Google Sheets for my document usage, and I am sharing all the tips and tricks, the challenges I have come across, and their solutions to use Google Docs for your day-to-day use. I hope you will learn from these practical Google Docs tutorials. Read more.