Solution to Brain Teaser #12: Removing hyperlinks from a document

To remove one hyperlink at a time in a Word document, select the hyperlink and then either:

• Right-click on it and click on 'Remove Hyperlink'
  or
• In the Links group of the Insert tab, click on Hyperlink and then click on 'Remove Hyperlink' in the Edit Hyperlink dialog box

Unfortunately, this method only works on one hyperlink at a time, if multiple hyperlinks are selected, 'Remove Hyperlink' is unavailable.

The 'Clear Formatting' tool in the Font group of MS-Word's Home tab won't work either, it has no effect upon hyperlinks.

However, if we copy and paste the hyperlink text to a plain text editor like Notepad and then copy and paste it back into MS-Word, the hyperlinks are eliminated.

1. Select all the hyperlinks (Ctrl-A) and copy Open Notepad and paste (Ctrl-V) the hyperlinks
2. Re-select all the hyperlinks (Ctrl-A)
3. Paste back into MS-Word
   All formatting, including hyperlink, is removed

Interestingly enough, MS-Excel's Clear Formatting command (Editing group of the Home tab) will remove hyperlink formatting, so exporting it there to clear the formatting would also work.