You’ve copied a bunch of text from the Web and pasted it into your Word document. But now you have a bunch of clickable blue underlined text and all you want is some plain black non-underlined non-clickable text. You may know that you can right-click on each individual hyperlink and select “Remove Hyperlink” but that gets tedious. Instead, type CTRL-A to select the whole document, then type CTRL-ALT-F9 and that will remove every hyperlink in the document.
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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You’ve copied a bunch of text from the Web and pasted it into your Word document. But now you have a bunch of clickable blue underlined text and all you want is some plain black non-underlined non-clickable text. You may know that you can right-click on each individual hyperlink and select “Remove Hyperlink” but that gets tedious. Instead, type CTRL-A to select the whole document, then type CTRL-ALT-F9 and that will remove every hyperlink in the document.