Selecting/Highlighting all blank lines in Word 2011

[uhjb]

I'm trying to find a way (may be with a macro) to select and highlight all the blank lines (rows) in a Word 2011 file.
My file usually start off with text on every second line with a blank line in between. Each line, text or blank is ended with a RETURN. My goal is to select all the blank lines all at once before applying a custom style to them. So far I've been Command + Click (Mac) each line, one at a time until all of them are selected/highlighted. The problem is my file could be few pages long with hundreds of blank lines to click. That's why I'm hoping if someone can come up with a quicker, maybe a one-click solution to speed up this process. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

[gmaxey]

Word VBA does not support select non-contiguous ranges like you can with the user interface. However, you can loop through the paragraphs (lines as you call them) and set a style:


Sub ScratchMacro()
' A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim oPar As Paragraph
For Each oPar In ActiveDocument.Range.Paragraphs
If Len(oPar.Range.Text) = 1 Then
oPar.Style = "Heading 1"
End If
Next oPar
lbl_Exit:
Exit Sub
End Sub

What is the point of an empty paragraph (line) with a style? In practice, you should avoid empty paragraphs with Word. Use space before or after the paragraphs that have text.

[uhjb]

In case you're wondering what I'm trying to do here. I'm preparing songs sheets for a group of beginners with lyrics and guitar chords just above each line of lyrics. After placing the lyrics of a song on every second line, I'd like to format the blank line above the lyric to a certain (different) style before adding the chords. That way I can add and/or modify the chords later without affecting the lyrics. So in order to do that, I would manually select (command + click with a Mac) on every blank line within the whole document before applying the custom style to all the blank lines prior to adding chords. Sometimes the song can be 2-3 pages long, meaning a lot of command-clicking between all the blank lines… I was just trying to look for an easier way to select and highlight them all at once before continue on. I hope that explains a bit better what I'm doing here.