Convert all hyperlinks to ordinary text

Itsjustbeej · #1 09-30-2025, 12:49 PM

Hi folks,

We have a bunch of documents with many hyperlinks in them. We now need to reuse these documents but without the hyperlinks. Currently I'm manually converting them to regular text by toggling the field codes and then finding "HYPERLINK," then hitting Ctrl+Shift+F9 to convert the field code to text. Then I find the next one and repeat.

Is there a faster, easier way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

macropod · #2 09-30-2025, 02:28 PM

Ctrl-A,then Ctrl-Shift-F9 will convert all fields to text.

Itsjustbeej · #3 10-01-2025, 06:08 AM

Thank you, but I should have been clearer. These documents also have dozens of other fields--TOCs, cross-references, table and figure numbers, etc. We can't just turn all fields to text.

gmayor · #4 10-01-2025, 09:24 AM

The following simple macro should do that

Code:

Sub Macro1()
Dim oFld As Field
    For Each oFld In ActiveDocument.Fields
        If oFld.Type = wdFieldHyperlink Then
            oFld.Unlink
        End If
    Next oFld
End Sub

Installing Macros

Itsjustbeej · #5 10-01-2025, 12:58 PM

Thank you!

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