. Adding a link To begin at the beginning To add a link into Word (or any Office document / email), select the text, press Ctrl + K then enter/paste in the hyperlink. For the moment there’s two key items: Text to display: that’s the visible / exposed text on the page. You can change the text here. Address: the link that’s ‘underneath’ the text. Wherever possible, copy the link from a browser to ensure the link is correct. The result is a familiar link with a tooltip to confirm what the underlying link is: As the tooltip says, hold down Ctrl and link on the link to open it in the default browser.

Automatic links Office will also make links automatically as you type. It does that by looking at the start of what you type and, if it matches a link prefix, converting the entire ‘word’ to a link. In other words, the displayed text and underlying link are the same. Some of the automatic prefixes are: www. Ftp:// mailto: (the start of a network path) This feature is controlled at Options Proofing AutoCorrect options: Links from images Pictures in a document or email have also have a link behind them, just like you often see on web pages. Simply select the image, press Ctrl + K and add the link just like for text. What is a link?

Most links are hyperlinks to web pages – starting with or but there are other types of links. Mailto: will create a new email message to the address given ftp: File Transfer Protocol, on way to copy files across the Internet. File: To open a file file://freddagg.docx It’s also possible to open a folder or file from a link eg c: fred dagg or fred dagg.docx There are other types of Internet links but the above are the most common. The underlying link and the visible text don’t have to match, check this example: The text says it’s going to one new web site but clicking on the link will take you to a very different one. Internal links There are also ‘internal’ links- meaning links to other parts of the document. Insert Hyperlink has a ‘Place in this document’ section that lists all the document headings plus bookmarks and a special ‘Top of document’ item.

There’s no matching ‘end of document’ option. Email address A mailto: link can create a new email message with the TO and Subject lines inserted automatically. Use the E-mail Address part of Insert Hyperlink E-mail address: just type or paste in the email address.

Office will add the mailto: bit for you. If you’re curious, this is the field code that Office adds for an email: Screentip The Screentip or Tooltip is the message that appears when someone hovers their mouse over the link: Set the Screentip from the button of that name on the Edit Hyperlink dialog. Sadly, Screentips aren’t included in any PDF made from a Word document. Here’s the same link as above, after conversion to PDF by Word 2016. Only the web link is shown, not the screen tip. Editing links To change an existing link, select the link or put the mouse cursor inside the link text and right-mouse click.

Below the copy/paste options are hyperlink options: Edit Hyperlink – open the Edit Hyperlink dialog, which is the same as the ‘Insert Hyperlink’ dialog mentioned above. Open Hyperlink – opens the web page, folder etc. Same as pressing Ctrl and clicking on the link. Copy Hyperlink – copies to the clipboard the underlying link – not the visible text. Remove Hyperlink – deletes the underlying link, leaving the visible text/element in place.

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If the visible text and link are the same, changing the visible text will also change the link. Behind the link Microsoft has made the dialog boxes so you can work with links fairly easily but there’s sometimes reason to dig behind and see what’s really happening. Press Alt + F9 to reveal/hide field codes, which includes the HYPERLINK field: Find and Replace links This is the way you can Find and even Replace link text. Normally, Find/Replace won’t ‘see’ links – they only work on the text on a page. Pressing Alt + F9 makes the links visible so you can use Find to check for particular links and Replace to change links in bulk.

This trick is handy if an organizations web site has changed or you have similar documents that need different links. The Look of Links Hyperlinks are normally blue but changed to purple if the link has been visited. These colors and the formatting of links generally is controlled by two specific in-built styles: Hyperlink FollowedHyperlink The FollowedHyperlink style is somewhat hidden. Even if it’s in use, it only shows up in the All Styles list. Reach that that via the Styles list Options All Styles. What happens when a link is clicked Finally a note on how links work.

Each link prefix mailto: etc has an association setup on the device of the reader. That association tells the computer what program to run when a link with that prefix is clicked. The most common example is — the association decides which web browser to run.

So it’s important to get the entire link, including the prefix, absolutely right. Assuming the link is right, any problem with clicking the link is down to the computer ‘reading’ the document, email or PDF – it’s not the fault of the author. Perhaps this is most common with new email (mailto:) links. Readers might ask why clicking the link opens the ‘wrong’ email program, assuming it’s some voodoo by the document/email author.

The fix is for the reader to check the association for mailto: links.

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).

My version OO 3.3.0 in Calc does not have (right click) context menu option of 'remove hyperlink'. Nor is 'remove hyperlink' in any of the Menu items. My solution was to Save As CSV, then open/import the CSV. Nice clean spreadsheet, ready for my formulas/formatting. I'm sure if your's is a Doc you could save a plain text (.txt) file and that would do the same thing. This is a solution for 1 sheet at a time, which surly beats 1 items at a time (find & replace).

I found this post via search and didn't realize until after I posted it was for Writer.