Instructions on how to remove all hyperlinks in Word

Word is a multifunctional text editor whose capabilities go far beyond writing various texts. In this article, a phenomenon such as a hyperlink will be examined. After reading the article, you will learn how to delete all hyperlinks in Word (in several ways), how to disable the automatic creation of hyperlinks and much more. We are happy to share information.

Manual Hyperlink Removal

To begin with, we’ll look at how to delete all hyperlinks in Word manually. Of course, this method takes a lot of time, unlike those that will be given below. However, if your text contains only a few hyperlinks, it will do just fine.

So, to remove hyperlinks in Word, you need to:

1. Mouse over the link;
2. Click the right mouse button (RMB);
3. From the context menu that appears, select "Delete Hyperlink".

After completing all the items, the hyperlink will disappear and the plain text will remain. Follow these steps on all elements and, as a result, there will be no links to other sources in your text.

Now you know the way how to remove all hyperlinks in Word, but this is not the best option. If there are a lot of them in your text, it will be much more reasonable to use automatic deletion. This method will be given below.

Automatically delete all hyperlinks

Consider the second way to remove hyperlinks in Word. Hotkeys will help us with this. It is ideal for those people who do not want to spend their time manually deleting links in the text, and if there are a lot of them, then you should not think, it is better to use this method right away.

The combination to delete is as follows: CTRL + SHIFT + F9. However, if you use it in a document that has just opened, no hyperlink will be lost. First you need to select all or part of the text, the one in which you need to carry out the appropriate action. To do this, you can use the mouse with the left button pressed, but if you quickly select all the text, it would be more reasonable to press the key combination CTRL + A.

So, to remove all links from the text, press CTRL + A, followed by CTRL + SHIFT + F9.

Now you know how to quickly remove all hyperlinks in Word. But the article does not end there. Further we will provide another method that is distinguished by its non-standard.

Delete using a script

This method, if you are using it for the first time, will require a fairly large amount of time compared to the previous ones, however in the future you will only need to press a couple of keys. So, we will begin to explain how to remove all hyperlinks in Word using the Visual Basic script. You must perform the following steps:

1. In an open program, you must press ALT + F11 to open a window for working with scripts.
2. In the window that opens, click the Insert button, located just above the toolbar.
3. In the drop-down list that appears, click on the Module item.
4. At this stage, a window will open in front of you in which you need to specify the script. The text of the script will be given below.

As soon as you paste the script into the appropriate input field, you will need to start its execution. There are two ways: left-click (LMB) on the Run button , which looks like a Play button , as, for example, in the player, or press the F5 key on the keyboard.

After running the script, links from the document will disappear. In the future, you will only need to run this script to delete them, without first creating it.

Turn off automatic hyperlink creation

In the end, it's worth telling how to turn off the automatic creation of links that you do not need. And to do this is quite simple:

1. Click on "File".
2. Go to the Options menu.
3. Click on "Spelling".
4. Click on "AutoCorrect Options."
5. Select the "Auto-format on entry" tab.
6. Uncheck "Hyperlink Network Paths".

After that, when inserting text with links in your document, hyperlinks will no longer be automatically created.