[Solved] How to simultaneously remove all hyperlinks?

[Hagar Delest]

Is there a way to simultaneously remove/disable all hyperlinks in a document (remove them all at once) ?

[acknak]

You can convert hyperlinks to plain text simply by removing their text formatting--yes, really. So, all you have to do is select the text for each link and remove the formatting (Format > Default Formatting).

The problem is, how to select all the links. Unfortunately, this isn't so easy.

You may be able to devise a regular expression that will do it, e.g. if all the links' text have some begins with "www." or ends with ".com", but it seems unlikely to be so simple.

It won't be all at once, but you can easily step through all the links using the Navigator (F5).

[Electron]

Yeah, I know I can do one at a time -- am looking at a 22-page document full of hyperlinks, with more of these documents to come. However, I have found a work-around: save the document to MS Word 97 -- that kills the hyperlinks.

[JohnV]

Try this macro on a backup copy.

Edit: New and much better version of this macro. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=40598

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Sub Main
oDoc = ThisComponent
enum1 = oDoc.Text.createEnumeration
While enum1.hasMoreElements
thisPara = enum1.nextElement
enum2 = thisPara.createEnumeration
While enum2.hasMoreElements
  thisPortion = enum2.nextElement
  thisPortion.HyperlinkTarget = ""
  thisPortion.HyperLinkURL = ""
Wend
Wend
End Sub

[Electron]

JohnV ---

Excellent!

Thanks.

Jack

[ysangkok]

Doesn't work on OpenOffice 3.1.1.

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BASIC Runtime Error

Error in this line: "enum2 = thisPara.createEnumeration"

Property or method not found.


[Electron]

I am surprised that OO does not have a Remove Hyperlinks feature; MS Word has had that at least since Word 97 (Tools/Macro/Macros/REMOVEHYPERLINKS).

[JohnV]

ysangkok,

OK, I took a look and I'll bet your document contains a table. I just threw this macro together and didn't consider or, for that matter, even think about the existence of tables in the document.

If I get a chance I'll address that issue.

Edit: New macro. viewtopic.php?f=21&t=40598

[bucknersc]

While not simultaneously removing all the hyperlinks in a document, nevertheless there's a very easy, three-step way to accomplish this manually.
1. Select one of the items in the document that contains a hyperlink. Open the context menu and select "Remove Hyperlink."
2. Press CTRL+A to select the entire document.
3. Press CTRL+SHIFT+Y to "Repeat: Reset attributes"
Hope this helps someone in the future.

[acknak]

Excellent!

Nice catch--and thanks for sharing the tip!