Black line on word docs

Having imported a Word document it is printing with a heavy black line down the left margin. Any suggestions as to how I can get rid of this please? Thanks in advance!

Hi dianal
Welcome to the forum.
You have not said whether the heavy black line is in the original Word document, nor whether it appears in the open file in Pages.
Please try to fully describe the actual issue.
Peter
btw to show images in these forums see the method in the Help & Terms of Use to your right. As Jerrold said park the image on a website somewhere, photobucket.com or flickr.com are good, and paste its url bracketed by ! (no space) on each side in these posts.

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