Maurice, Simply reopen issue fdo#60858 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60858> , but you will need to make a strong case from a UX position as to why a horizontal rule direct style object is needed. Also, HTML styles and direct editing still support use of <HR> or <HR /> tagging so the "horizontal rule" is an more an issue of direct styling paragraph separators. A more precise discussion Ask LibreOffice thread is: selection-of-horizontal-rule-no-longer-possible <http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/15930/selection-of-horizontal-rule-no-longer-possible/> Looking at fdo#60858, the decision to remove the direct styling looks to have been one of code maintenance... 2012-11-23 Cédric BosdonnatRemoved horizontal rule ugly 1990 thing Change-Id: Ifafd8b2ffd9af90b6ac4ed2ee0ccd3c5e980731c <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git&a=search&h=HEAD&st=commit&s=Ifafd8b2ffd9af90b6ac4ed2ee0ccd3c5e980731c> But a case has to be made for UX development to reestablish--that process is via the fdo#60858 bug and the LibreOffice UX-Advise <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/UX-Advise-f3619688.html> list. Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LO-4-0-3-3-Insert-Horizontal-rule-is-missing-tp4061308p4061331.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted