Finding Horizontal Rules Copied from Web Pages

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I frequently copy/paste information from web pages into Word documents. A common construct on web pages is a “horizontal rule”. It comes into Word 97 much like a graphic but not exactly. I haven’t found a way to search for these rules either (go to Graphic doesn’t work). Any ideas?

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Hi,

Not a direct answer to your question, but it might help pasting into Word.

If you paste using “Paste Special”, then select “Unformatted text”, you don’t have to worry about some of the special bits which get pasted in

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Actually, I knew that. Sometimes I want to preserve the HTML formatting but I’ve found that horizontal rules don’t translate properly (end up obscuring text). Seems like there ought to be a way to search for them. You can create them if you’re editing a HTML file.

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An example is on AltaVista’s text search page:
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&text=yes

Another example is:
http://www.jerrypournelle.com/view/currentview.html

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FWIW, I can get a line like that into Word 2000 (but not Word 97) by “Format, Borders and SHading, Horizontal line”.

The command which results from the recorder is:
Selection.InlineShapes.AddHorizontalLine FileName:= …

You could try this to find them:

Dim ils As InlineShape

For Each ils In ActiveDocument.InlineShapes
If ils.Type = wdInlineShapeHorizontalLine Then
ils.Select
End If
Next

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Thanks, I’ll have to try that.

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