Can I remove all lines at once?

[LadyDungeness]

I have a document, hundreds of pages long, that was scanned with an
OCR reader. The reader interpreted some of the lines and edges as
graphic lines. In Word 2002, the FIND ^g does not find them. But the
DRAWING pointer does.

I don't want to go page by page, using the Drawing Pointer to select
all the strays and then delete them. Plus, I have to re-click the
Drawing Pointer whenever I advance to the next page.

How can I get rid of these thousands of stray lines?


Lady Dungeness
Crabby, but Great Legs!
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Unless the OCR app did a better job than most, you probably don't need the
formatting it supplied. How about selecting all the text and then using
Paste Special as Unformatted Text in a new doc (or pasting into WordPad,
then copying and pasting back into a new Word doc)? This should lose the
graphic lines. Of course if the text includes other graphics, this wouldn't
be feasible.

 

[CyberTaz]

You might also benefit from adding the Select Multiple Objects command to a
toolbar:

Tools> Customize - Commands, select Drawing from the list of categories,
then drag the command to a toolbar. [I keep it on the Drawing toolbar right
next to the regular Select Objects tool.]