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Sometimes, along with text copied from a web page and pasted into Word, hyperlinks are transferred into the document, which can be quite annoying. Today we will find out how easy it is to remove hyperlinks when you do not need their presence in the document.
We will look at some simple ways to clean up data from hyperlinks that have been transferred to Word from email or from a website page. There will be 2 ways in total – a tool paste Special (Paste Special) and hotkeys.
Remove hyperlinks in Word with Paste Special
We copied part of the article from the How-To Geek site into Microsoft Word 2010, and as you can see, the hyperlinks also made their way into the document.
To paste text without hyperlinks, right-click on the document page, a context menu will open. In chapter Paste Options (Paste Options) You will see three icons:
We need a third one, the right one, with a hint Keep Text Only (Keep text only). If you hover your mouse over it, a preview of the changed text will appear in the document so you can see how it will look.
Pressing command Keep Text Only (Keep text only) You will see that all hyperlinks have been removed. True, this approach clears all the formatting in the document. If you are not satisfied with the default font, then the font settings and other design will have to be configured again.
In Office 2007 on the tab Home (Home) from command dropdown menu paste (Paste) select item paste Special (Special insert).
In the dialog box paste Special (Paste special) select Unformatted Text (Unformatted text) and click OK.
In Office 2003, copy the text into a document, hover over the clipboard icon, and from the drop-down list select Keep Text Only (Keep text only).
Remove hyperlinks in Word using hotkeys
Hotkey lovers can do the following. Select all text containing hyperlinks, to do this, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A. And then press Ctrl+Shift+F9… We successfully tested this combination in Word 2003-2010.
By pressing the combination, all hyperlinks will be removed, and the formatting will remain intact.
Conclusion
There are several different ways to get rid of hyperlinks when pasting text into Microsoft Word. How you do this depends on your personal preferences and the version of Word you’re using. Combination Ctrl+Shift+F9 works in any version of Microsoft Word and is probably the easiest way. If you ALWAYS need to paste only text in Microsoft Word, you can turn off automatic link insertion in the program options.
If you know another way to remove hyperlinks from Word documents, please let us know in the comments!