How to quickly insert horizontal lines in Word documents

When you want to quickly insert a horizontal line into your Word document, you don’t have to type the line manually or even go to the menu looking for a ‘Insert horizontal line’ button.
All you have to do is type three characters on your keyboard and hit enter, and a horizontal line will appear. There are 6 different horizontal lines that you can create.

— (3 dashes) and Enter – This will give you a simple straight line.
___ (3 underscores) and Enter – This will give you a thicker, almost double layer horizontal line.
### (3 hashes) and Enter – This will give you a thick line with two thin ones surrounding it.
*** (3 asterisk) and Enter – This will give you a dotted horizontal line.
=== (3 equals signs) and Enter – This will give you a double line.
~~~ (3 tildes) and Enter – This will give you a zig zag horizontal line.

The line is inserted for the full width of the page. When inserted into a column, the line is inserted to match the width of the column. These lines can be useful as dividers in memos and reports.