how to get Horizontal line char in MS Word

[NBartomeli]

I am trying to parse a work document, and get the first 3 characters at the beginning of the line right after every horizontal line in the document, but I am having trouble knowing what character to search for, or if i would be able to find them through the Document or Word objects

thanks in advance for any advice

-Nick

 

[shrubble]

This code, in a blank worksheet in the "sheet1" window, will produce a list af all ASCII characters...
I suspect you'll want to key in on either
Chr(150)
or Chr(151)
(In other words, use these descriptives as the search criteria instead of (x = "-&quot or something like that.)


Private Sub Worksheet_Activate()
Dim i As Integer

For i = 1 To 255
Sheet1.Cells(i, 1) = Chr(i)
Next

End Sub

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[NBartomeli]

Thanks for the help, but I was asking about WORD and now EXCEL

-Nick

 

[TonyJollans]

Hi NBartomeli,

What do you mean by horizontal line? Do you mean a particular character, or a drawn line, or a line which is part of the formatting (after a paragraph for example). Each would need treating differently.

Depending on the answer, it might also be necessary to know what do you mean by beginning of the line because text in Word is not organized in lines - it flows depending on the margins.

Enjoy,
Tony

 

[shrubble]

The character is the same; I just used Excel to demonstrate

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