Re: how can I remove hyperlinks from text copied from the web?

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

Suzanne,

Your original post was fne. My orignial post was fine. Peter is just being
Peter.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
In my original answer, I should have pointed out that the OP could
select just the portion of text that had been pasted in from the Web
and unlink fields only in that portion. It's unlikely that Web text
would contain fields other than hyperlinks.


"Greg Maxey" <gmaxey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:%234yPTmtGKHA.4416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Peter,

What your hold on to and what you let go matters not to me.

Back to your question. "Under what _possible_ circumstances is this
preferable to Suzanne's two-keystroke solution to the problem?"

It could be that you are simply dazed and reeling from your recent
spankings, but for a person supposedly skilled in a gazillion
different languages you seem particularly dense when is comes to
comprehending plain English. Suzanne offered a correct and
perfectly sensible answer to the OP's original question and I felt
that she took care to state that her answer was conditional. That
condition being: "If hyperlinks are the only fields in the
document." I think a reasonable person could conclude that if
hyperlinks are not the only fields in the document then the process
that Suzanne provided may not produce the desired result. The possible
circumstance being the OP has copied a list containing
hyperlink fields into a document that contains other types of fields.

Now your statement: "So your "solution" solves a problem the OP
didn't ask about."

The OP did not state that there are other fields and the OP did not
state that there are not other fields. At this point we don't know
if there are other fields or not. There may be other fields and
there may not be other fields. We may never hear from the OP again
and never know if there are other fields or not. In any case you
are correct, my solution solves a problem that the OP didn't ask
about. So my high crime is solving a problem that the OP didn't ask
about. Is this the point that you have taken so much effort to highlight
and drive home? Bask in the glory of your small victory Peter.

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:a4e326eb-07b6-4565-9816-7c5c46bac3b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
So your "solution" solves a problem the OP didn't ask about.

As I said, I was going to let this go, but you chose to engage in
your standard nasty discourse in another thread.

On Aug 10, 10:56 pm, "Greg Maxey"
<gma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Suzanne's answer was "conditional." Or maybe you don't understand
plain English. "If" generally means that there could be other
circumstances. Let's see here's one. "Hyperlinks are not the only
fields." Peter T. Daniels wrote:
I was going to let this go, but then I saw Greg's arrogant
postings in the "Paste Unformatted" thread.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Under what _possible_ circumstances is this preferable to Suzanne's
two-keystroke solution to the problem?

On Aug 10, 8:36 pm, "Greg Maxey"
<gma...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Or use a macro:

Sub NailNeedsHammer()
Dim oFld As Word.Field
For Each oFld In ActiveDocument.Fields
If oFld.Type = wdFieldHyperlink Then
oFld.Unlink
End If
Next oFld
End Sub

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
If hyperlinks are the only fields in the text, select it and
press Ctrl+Shift+F9 to unlink the fields.

"removing hyperlinks from copied text"
<removinghyperlinksfromcopiedt...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in
messagenews:23B5472C-02C4-435E-9E40-93258658DA46@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
?When I copy a list from the internet, I often get items
highlighted in blue
that have embedded jump sites or other information. I can clean
these up one
at a time, but that is very tedious if I have a whole list of
documents, each
of which has embedded information.

How can I strip a document clean all at once?

--
Greg Maxey - Word MVP

My web site http://gregmaxey.mvps.org
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: how can I remove hyperlinks from text copied from the web?
    ... I think you and Peter just need a beer summit. ... Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: ... Greg Maxey - Word MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.word.docmanagement)
  • Re: Slow opening and closing for Word2002
    ... Suzanne S. Barnhill ... please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so ... "Peter Sutcliffe" wrote in message ... >>Microsoft MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.word.application.errors)
  • Re: Weird Page Size
    ... "Peter Carlson" wrote in message ... > "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... >> Microsoft MVP ...
    (microsoft.public.word.formatting.longdocs)
  • Re: Word template and VSTO
    ... Where is Peter Torr's web site? ... See Howard Kaikow's web site. ... >> I guess VSTO did not grant full trust to the DLL. ...
    (microsoft.public.vsnet.vstools.office)
  • Re: hydrogen powered cars?
    ... Don't have access to a digital camera, Peter? ... > Make a web site if you want your photos to be seen. ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)