Thanks, Paul. That seems to work. Wonder why half of the data is OK, and the rest is corrupted. There never was any intent to have anything but the name hyperlinked. Everything has worked fine for years (since 2005), then suddenly became corrupted. To get rid of the extra hyperlinked data I have converted to text twice, copied to Word and added the hyperlinks then reformatted to HTML. But the extra hyperlinks seem to come back sooner of later.

You are right about the data being poorly laid out. It was a modified format directly from the program Family TreeMaker. I tried remaking it with Tabs, but still had the hyperlink problem. I may redo the whole thing using Tabs.

I notice that using Control Shift F9 also gets rid of the name hyperlink even though it is not highlighted. Hopefully when I restore the hyperlink it will only apply to the name.

FYI This data occurs as the last part an article at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~la...vierfamily.htm

Thanks again

Dick Sevier
Jackson, MS

Some of your data have more than just the name included in a single hyperlink. With 'Retta Brooks', for example, 'Retta' is in a separate hyperlink from 'Brooks', which includes a bunch of extraneous text. Unfortunately, you can't simply drag 'Brooks' onto the 'Retta' hyperlink. For those hyperlinks, you can use the 'Edit hyperlink' function to correct the display text.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]