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Removing multiple Hyperlinks at once

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by jfradette

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Does anyone know of a util or a method that will either delete multiple hyperlinks in one fell swoop, or allow me to.

Ex. I create a word document from various info gleaned from the web. Problem is these snipets are littered w/unwanted hyperlinks. By the time I've finished w/the doc it may have 10 - 30 unwanted hyperlinks in it.

I know how to delete these hyperlinks individually, but that's a lot of work. I know this will turn out to be way to easy, but I'm not having any luck perusing the web.

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by dklippert

If you just want to remove the hyperlink property of the entry, select the document (Ctrl+A) and unlink the field (Ctrl+Shift+F9).
If you want to remove all of the fields in the document,
Select the document (Ctrl+A).
Expose the fields (Alt+F9).
Use Edit replace to replace ^d with nothing.

by jfradette

Doug, Thank you very much. I knew there had to be a simple answer. Thanx also for your promptness. And since you came back so quickly with the great solution, I've up'ed the points awarded to 500.

thanx again, jf

by maxwell edison

Microsoft article Q223790:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q223790

If you want to delete all hyperlinks in a document, you can use a Visual Basic for Applications macro to do this. Please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for information on how to write such a macro:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q156353

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How to convert the hyperlinks in a document to plain text:

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/DeleteHyperlinksContent.htm

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Maxwell

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