How do I delete a range of lines in all pages of a word document

[Frank]

How do I delete the same range of lines in all pages of a large word
document. (several thousand pages). To do this one at a time will take
forever.

Thanks

 

[Jay Freedman]

How do I delete the same range of lines in all pages of a large word
document. (several thousand pages). To do this one at a time will take
forever.

You're probably going to need a macro (although under certain
circumstances you can do it with Edit > Replace). To do that, you need
to be able to tell exactly how to locate that text and not any other
text. That could be:

- text in a specific style that isn't used for anything else
- text that consists of specific words, or between specific words,
that don't occur anywhere else
- specific line numbers on the page (although this is the hardest to
program, because Word does dynamic page layout) -- does the document
have hard page breaks to keep things from moving around, or at least
Page Break Before formatting on the first line?

Can you tell us exactly how to locate the text to delete?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If I read the OP correctly, it's lines at a specific position on the page.
This could *just* be done if the macro started at the end and worked
backward.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Yes, that's what I thought, too, but the OP is going to have to tell
me exactly which lines they are (or come back with one of the other
choices). I'm afraid my long-distance-mind-reading machine is out of
order today.