Removing Hyperlinks

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I have a long Word document (250 pages) with many hyperlinks (mainly created from pastes from HTML pages). How do I remove ALL hyperlinks from a document. Or, how can I search the document for the next Hyperlink?
Thanks for your help.
Peter

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Hi, Peter…
Best way… Key Alt+F9, which shows the field code text, instead of the code results. Then you can search (Edit/Search, or Ctrl+F9) for ‘^dhyper’ (without the quotes) repeatedly. As you reach each one, click in the document and you can convert the field result into hard text by pressing Ctrl+Shift+F9.

Personally, I’d record a simple macro to do the job so I just have to keep clicking a button until it’s through…

One of the VBA’ers around here I’m certain can give you a real quick coding for it.

Have a blast!

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Thanks Karen. It worked a treat, although the replace text has to be ‘^d hyper’ (note the space). I never knew ^d for searching fields. Now if Word just had regular expressions, I could do a replace without having to create a macro…

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If you break down and decide to use a macro, this should do it for you:

Sub DeleteHLinks()
Dim n As Long
Dim lngHypCt As Long
Dim objDocHyps As Hyperlinks
Set objDocHyps = ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks

lngHypCt = objDocHyps.Count
For n = lngHypCt To 1 Step -1
    objDocHyps(n).Delete
Next n
End Sub

Saves all that clicking!

Gary

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