>In the menu at the top I have a 'Window' choice (just left of Help) which has the split/unsplit choices. I did find I had to doubleclick exactly at the point where the cursor changed to 'resize' to remove the split that way.
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>I assume you've tried closing Word and then reopening it?

Ok, that's not the same split bar I am talking about. The one I am talking about only appears in the document and not across the entire Word area. It's like an underline line but across the width of the page. It appears when I force a page break. My page break works however that bar remain there.