Remove all hyperlinks in Microsoft Word at a time.

Most of us use Wikipedia for as a source of information. Sometimes we require to save the text information in a word file. Since the articles in Wikipedia links to number of other articles and different sources, they too get copied to the word file. Instead of removing each link in the article, using shortcut keys one can remove all links at a time.

Select the text from which you want to remove the links, or press Ctrl+A to select the whole text.

Press Ctrl+Shift+F9 or Ctrl+6 to remove all links at a time. This works with all versions of Microsoft word.

One can use Macro’s to do the same Job. Follow the procedure to do so.

Press Alt+F11 to open the Visual Basic Editor

Go to “Insert” > “Module” and in the pop-up window copy:

Sub RemoveHyperlinks()
Dim oField As Field
For Each oField In ActiveDocument.Fields
If oField.Type = wdFieldHyperlink Then
oField.Unlink
End If
Next
Set oField = Nothing
End Sub

Then click “File” > Close and return to Microsoft Word. You can now run the Macro in Word by going to: Tools > Macro > Macro and then Run “RemoveAllHyperlinks”.