There are times when I am having a project and it requires me to look for resources from the internet. Most of the time, I will look up on Wikipedia, and it troubles me so much when I copy and paste an article that is full of links to Microsoft Word.
Instead of removing those links one by one, you can try this method, which only consist of two steps, but will remove all links in one go.
- Press Ctrl+A, which will highlight the entire text
- Press Ctrl+Shift+F9 (OR Ctrl+6), and you will see all links disappearing within seconds
*For Mac, try Command + 6
This method is working on my Microsoft Word 2003, MS Word 2007(thanks Shivshanker) and Word 2008 for Mac (thanks Kris), but I have not tested it on other versions.
Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Words
16 Oct 08
9:52 pm
Works in Word 2008 for Mac with Command-Shift-F9, great tip, thanks.
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AP replied:
December 24th, 2009
Yes, thank you!
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jb replied:
January 7th, 2010
this is exactly what I want to do in Word 08 for Mac, but it’s not working!
“apple”-shift-F9???
am I missing a step?
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Colin replied:
February 1st, 2011
@jb, That worked. THANK YOU so much.
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Logan replied:
March 28th, 2011
@Kris Soret,
Bless your heart!
I’ve been wasting so much time doing one link at a time.
THANK YOU!
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04 Dec 08
8:27 pm
I Tested in MS 2007
It works!
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02 Sep 09
6:46 am
I had to use Command+6 for word on my mac
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Sarah replied:
September 12th, 2009
Me too, command A then command 6. Turned over 100 hyperlinks into plain text (much better than doing them all one by one! :S )
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danielle Raine replied:
January 28th, 2010
Thanks! That was so helpful. Saved me hours of formatting. You’re a star!
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Anthony replied:
January 2nd, 2011
@j,
i had to use command+6 for word 2008 for Mac. Worked, finally. thanks!
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jesknight replied:
May 22nd, 2011
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH
i was driving myself insane!!! command+6 is my saviour!
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07 Oct 09
9:35 pm
Thanks so much! This worked great.
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knk replied:
August 11th, 2011
thank you so much this is working very well
it helps me very well, thanks once again
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18 Nov 09
10:52 am
Holy hell thank you! A lot of people advise one to create a Macro! I’ve never created a macro before and didn’t want to try. I cannot believe how flippin’ easy this is!
Now if only there were a 2-step shortcut to remove all hyperlinks while composing an email message in “yahoo”…
Thanks again!!!
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13 Dec 09
9:11 am
I want free microsoft office 2003!
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28 Jan 10
1:07 am
Thanks so much! This worked great.
there My project is stop for hyperlinks
Thank so much
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27 Mar 10
11:22 pm
it worked on my word 2008 for mac.. command+6 and then i didnt think it worked but i just had to turn all of the hyperlinks from blue to black font! thanks a lot!
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08 Apr 10
10:52 pm
Worked great. Can’t tell you how annoying those hyper-links were (and now they’re gone)…+1
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13 Apr 10
2:21 am
None of these are working for me. I am using a Mac Uni 2008 Word; copy, pasted info from Wikipedia, removed formatting. Hyperlinks still there. Did the cntrl shft F9. Nothing. Is the command +6 actually using the + sign? Hate to sound so ignorant, but none of these are working!!
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13 Apr 10
7:31 am
Hello KS, if you have tried everything here then I can’t help much, since I don’t have a Mac. Sorry
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14 Apr 10
7:25 am
Thankyou, Vincent.
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30 Apr 10
1:40 am
KS if you still want to know, you have to find “the apple” button on your mac.
Here is how to find it.
Look to the bottom left of your keyboard…
fn ctrl alt = after these three buttons it should be the “apple button”.
Hold down the apple button and press the number 6. It worked on my 2nd Gen. MacBook Pro.
Hope this helps.
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30 Apr 10
1:41 am
**fn ctrl alt = after these three buttons there should be an “apple button”.
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20 May 10
7:24 am
Thank you SO much!! Worked perfectly in Word 2003.
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27 Jul 10
9:51 am
This is SO helpful. It has bugged me for years. Why doesn’t MS document this? Thanks!
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10 Aug 10
8:29 pm
Thank you. I’ve been taking the long route for a LONG time. Thanks again.
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19 Aug 10
2:35 am
thanks lot dear….
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20 Aug 10
3:04 pm
Do NOT do this if your document has any cross-references. It will eat them as well as web hyperlinks!
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20 Aug 10
3:53 pm
It also turns out that it destroys table/figure captioning (captions just become text). This is thus a BAD idea on any document that is vaguely complicated. I’ve just spent the morning undoing the mess it made of my dissertation
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22 Sep 10
2:49 am
tnxxx very much
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10 Nov 10
6:33 pm
Cracking discovery! This had annoyed me for ages, thanks for publishing!
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15 Nov 10
10:47 pm
Thanks, It works
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19 Nov 10
2:33 pm
Doesn’t work in Win XP Office 2010.
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Yasumy replied:
April 27th, 2011
@Guest, works fine on Vista, Office 2010.
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20 Nov 10
9:19 am
Thanks, it works!
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29 Dec 10
4:01 pm
nice tanq very much
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18 Feb 11
6:07 pm
i have a mac and command + 6 WORKED! YOU ARE A GENIUS! THANKS!!!!
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23 Feb 11
3:39 am
OMG, thanks so much for this!
Working on a doc with scores of links is a nightmare (“aargh, go AWAY, Safari!”). You’d think there’d be a way to turn links on and off globally… but I guess that’s waaay too much to ask of a company who can’t even put something as simple (and necessary) as “sidebar: ⌘-6 will save you from stroking out from frustration” into their own documentation. Jeez.
God, how I hate Microsoft.
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27 Mar 11
11:35 pm
Command + 6 works in Mac Office 11
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21 Apr 11
3:21 am
I found I had to select ALL of the hyperlinks, not just some. I wanted to, so no prob. I know there’s a way to eliminate one at a time because I’ve done it — too long ago to remember how — but darned if I could find it in Word help for Mac.
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11 Jun 11
3:33 am
Thank you so much! You are a lifesaver!
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17 Jun 11
12:59 am
Cmd+6 works on Word 2011. Thanks!
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22 Jun 11
1:14 pm
Microsoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 – 1 PackMicrosoft Office for Mac Home and Business 2011 – 1 PackA quarter of what I do is to produce booklets (sometimes called “bookfold” by Microsoft). All Windows versions of Word since Word 2000 have had this simple capability, but Word for Mac never has. It seemed a no-brainer that Microsoft would fix this in Word 2011.
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03 Jul 11
5:17 pm
THANK YOU so much.it helped me very much
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08 Jul 11
6:12 pm
Wow, thank you for this information! That just made my work go so much faster. Copying Bible text from word reference tools that contain links to their webpage has been a real pain!
Thank you for this one!
(PS- I use a Mac, so thanks for thinking of the Mac users!)
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21 Jul 11
2:59 am
Thank you, thank you! I’m happy to remove links one at a time (Cmd + 6 works), so long as I can remove them. Now if I could figure out how to fix all the other BS that Word puts into my documents…
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18 Aug 11
9:38 am
Command + 6 works on Word Mac 2011. THANK YOU FOR THIS SHORTCUT!
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21 Oct 11
5:59 am
thank you thank you thank you
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03 Nov 11
10:29 pm
A big thank you! I’ve been spending years deleting hyperlinks!
Like Omaha above, Command 6 works on Word Mac 2011!
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22 Nov 11
12:21 am
Thank you for this tip!
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09 Jan 12
8:06 am
Ugh, no command + 6 does NOT work on Mac Word 2011. What the hell am I doing wrong?
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