Find / replace horizontal lines?

[Eric]

I have a file which has horizontal lines that I've created by entering ---
(three hyphens) plus Enter, which Word changes into a page-wide horizontal
line.

I'd like to use Find to find-and-replace them. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a file which has horizontal lines that I've created by entering ---
(three hyphens) plus Enter, which Word changes into a page-wide horizontal
line.

I'd like to use Find to find-and-replace them. Is there any way to do this?

Thanks.

No, you can't use Find for them. They're paragraph borders
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CantGetRidOfLine.htm), and Find
doesn't have any way to look for borders.

If you just want to remove all of them -- and you don't have any other paragraph
borders in the document that you want to keep -- then select everything
(Ctrl+A), go to Format > Borders & Shading, select No Border (make sure the
Apply To box is set to Paragraph), and click OK.

 

[Eric]

Thanks. I've never known exactly what they were. Never tried that hard to
figure it out... but I've always been curious.

It just seemed to me like one of those un-figure-outable things like list
styles or bullets and numbering - things that must have some logic to them
but none that any normal person has the time or energy to figure out.

Seriously, thanks for the info.