Hi Harold,

There are two ways to do this one quicker than the other.

The first way is to just hold the - key for a quarter of the page and hit return. It will automatically add a bold line across the page. If you hold the shift key and - it will do a non bolded line across the page.

The other option is to use a function that is popular in Excel 2010. Go to the home page - paragraph group - and look for a small dotted square. Press on that and scroll to the bottom of all of your available options. It is hard to describe this so i've created a quick tutorial for you.

One option, especially if you're interested in using decorative horizontal lines, is to go to the Page Layout tab and in the Page Background group click Page Borders. Then in the bottom of the Borders and Shading dialogue, click the Horizontal Line button.

In the Horizontal Line dialogue you can scroll through everything from plain lines to some real wild ones. Once you choose one, click OK, and it's in your doc...you can always modify it by double-clicking the line and make your changes in the Format Horizontal Line dialogue box that opens. You can also use the handles that appear when the line is selected to resize the line.

Another method I use often is to go to the Insert tab, in the Illustrations group click Shapes and choose the Line option. Then click and draw the line wherever you want in your doc. Hold the Shift key while dragging to lock the line to a horizontal position. Once it's on the page, with the line selected you can use the Format tab on the ribbon to do all sorts of things to it...like applying Styles.

I personally like these options because the line becomes an independent object on the page that I can move and adjust, copy and paste elsewhere in the doc, and so on.