Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated December 16, 2023)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2021, and Word in Microsoft 365
Dennis has a small macro that does a great job of removing hyperlinks from within a document. He just received a new document to work with, and it has quite a few hyperlinks in footnotes. The macro doesn't remove these hyperlinks, and removing them manually is a huge chore. Dennis wonders if there is a way to remove hyperlinks in footnotes all at once.
Actually, there is a way. You can manually do it, if you desire, by following these steps:
You should note that these steps actually convert all fields in the selected text into regular text. Since hyperlinks are implemented through the use of fields, they are converted. But, so are any other fields that may be in your footnotes. If you don't want to change other fields, or if you have a need to deal with hyperlinks in footnotes quite a bit, you may want to, instead, use a macro.
The following macro will get rid of hyperlinks in only the footnotes:
Sub RemoveFNH() Dim h As Hyperlink With ActiveDocument If .Footnotes.Count >= 1 Then With .StoryRanges(wdFootnotesStory) For Each h In .Hyperlinks h.Delete Next h End With End If End With End Sub
Note that the important part of the macro is the specification of working with the wdFootnotesStory story range. Word documents can consist of multiple story ranges, each representing a different element, such as headers, footers, footnotes, etc. If you want to remove hyperlinks from all parts of your document (which means from all of the story ranges), then you can use an even shorter macro:
Sub RemoveAllHyperlinks() Dim r As Range Dim h As Hyperlink For Each r In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges For Each h In rng.Hyperlinks h.Delete Next h Next r End Sub
The macro steps through each of the story ranges in the document and, if there are hyperlinks in that story range, deletes each of them.
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2023-12-16 09:00:00
Robert Love
In the second macro, it looks like you've written "rng" where you meant "r".
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