You look at the page checking for the shortest distance between two points
and suddenly shout 'Eureka! I've found the line!' Then select it, delete it,
and add whatever it is you want in its place.

Thanks tons for most timely and professional response

Do you mean a line drawn using the drawing tools on the Drawing tools
toolbar? If so, in VBA all such lines are members of the Shapes collection.
You can iterate through the Shapes collection and delete any Shape you don't
want, on whatever basis you decide to include in your code.

Yes- the document has many lines in it that were drawn with the line tool. I
am new to Word and thought that there might be a easy way to find and
replace the lines with a blank space rather than having to manually go
through 117 pages looking for each line.

Comments??

Thanks a lot mate - better you than me.