How to remove a border from an inline shape - vba

I am working in VBA on Word 2010.
I have some code to add borders to an inlineshape which is working ok, but I need to be able to remove the border and that doesn't seem to be working. I've searched through this site and can't find anything close apart from this:
Mimic word borders and shading option "apply to:" (text) with vba on an inline shape
Code is a follows:
Sub TestAddBorders()
Dim rngShape As InlineShape
For Each rngShape In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
With rngShape.Range.Borders
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleSingle
.OutsideColorIndex = wdPink
.OutsideLineWidth = wdLineWidth300pt
End With
Next rngShape
End Sub
Sub TestRemoveBorders()
Dim rngShape As InlineShape
For Each rngShape In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
With rngShape.Range.Borders
.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleNone
End With
Next rngShape
End Sub
I am always left with a picture (inlineshape) that has a greyish border around it. Using "Picture Border > No Outline" on the Picture Tools > Format Tab removes it, but I can' find any way to do it in VBA. The wdLineStyleNone just doesn't seem to work and I can't see an option for colour = "none", or linewidth = "none"
Thank you.

From MSDN:
To remove all the borders from an object, set the Enable property to False.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff196058.aspx
This will remove the borders as you applied them:
Sub TestRemoveBorders()
Dim rngShape As InlineShape
For Each rngShape In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
With rngShape.Range.Borders
.Enable = False
End With
Next rngShape
End Sub
The above method removes borders but not lines. To remove lines, try this:
With rngShape.Line
.Visible = msoFalse
End With

David's answer is correct, but I wanted to add to it for anyone who stumbles upon this later.
I prefer not to use the Borders method that I see most other people list to add a border to an InlineShape, and thanks to David's answer here I learned that you can just use the Line member like you can with normal Shapes!
I'm aware that this might not exactly answer the question for those of you who are not also setting the border yourself, but in my personal case it was helpful. With that in mind, here are the revised versions of methods to Add and Remove the borders from shapes.
Option Explicit
Sub PicturesAll_Borders_Show()
'for pictures which are "In Line with Text"
Dim inShp As InlineShape
For Each inShp In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
If inShp.Type = wdInlineShapePicture Then
With inShp.Line
.Visible = True
.Style = msoLineSingle
.Weight = 1
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
End With
End If
Next inShp
'for pictures which are "With Text Wrapping"
Dim shp As Shape
For Each shp In ActiveDocument.Shapes
If shp.Type = msoPicture Then
With shp.Line
.Visible = True
.Style = msoLineSingle
.Weight = 1
.ForeColor.RGB = RGB(0, 0, 0)
End With
End If
Next shp
End Sub
Sub PicturesAll_Borders_Hide()
'for pictures which are "In Line with Text"
Dim inShp As InlineShape
For Each inShp In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
If inShp.Type = wdInlineShapePicture Then inShp.Line.Visible = False
Next inShp
'for pictures which are "With Text Wrapping"
Dim shp As Shape
For Each shp In ActiveDocument.Shapes
If shp.Type = msoPicture Then shp.Line.Visible = False
Next shp
End Sub

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