Word and its quirks

Bri

Could anyone explain why MS Word (2000 on XP) has a habit of making loads of my text hyperlinked...even when it never was and isn't actually linked. i.e. The format box beside Font refuses to let me set it back to normal text. I mean I just copy and paste from 1 word to another straight and it still underlines half the paragraph (calls it a hyperlink but doesn't go blue just black).

Is there anyway to turn off hyperlinking full stop? I already have word blocked on my firewall but that just upsets it. :rolleyes:

Raam

try this...

select the text that you want to make 'normal'. Right click it, point to 'Hyperlink', then in that sub-menu choose 'Remove Hyperlink'

KR

Bri

Thanks but unfortunatley I'm aware of this. It's a long-winded way to do it hence me wanting to turn it off. Also most of the time they arn't really hyperlinks - they're not a web address or e-mail and hence don't point to anything. They just get formatted as if they were, which is affecting my own formatting. It's incredibly irritating as I'm copying inside of Word only and in moving from 1 doc to another it 'adds' this kind of sh!t.

The original document wasn't made up of web-copied material by the way, just my own writings which baffles me even more.

Thanks anyway.

Cork Skate

Instead of using pasting, go to Edit, Paste Special and select "Unformatted
Text"

Also try and use Tools - Auto correct - Autoformat - uncheck "Internet & Network Paths as Hyperlinks"

If you already have a document full of hyperlinks, here's a macro to
turn them all into plain text:

Public Sub UnHyperText()
Dim nLinks As Long, i As Long
nLinks = ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Count
For i = nLinks To 1 Step -1
ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks(i).Delete
Next i
End Sub


I got that from a mate, i aint the best with macros so can help any further with it. Hope that helps !!

Miles

Open Word and type this in: = rand (200,99)

Wait three seconds and see what happens.;)

Cork Skate

Miles wrote:

Open Word and type this in: = rand (200,99)

Wait three seconds and see what happens.;)

This is what it does !!

Miles

Correct. Harmless but fun to watch.

Bri

Thanks... :rolleyes:

Bri

Cork Skate wrote:

Instead of using pasting, go to Edit, Paste Special and select "Unformatted
Text"

Also try and use Tools - Auto correct - Autoformat - uncheck "Internet & Network Paths as Hyperlinks"

If you already have a document full of hyperlinks, here's a macro to
turn them all into plain text:

Public Sub UnHyperText()
Dim nLinks As Long, i As Long
nLinks = ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Count
For i = nLinks To 1 Step -1
ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks(i).Delete
Next i
End Sub


I got that from a mate, i aint the best with macros so can help any further with it. Hope that helps !!

Cheers for the help. I missed it earlier with Miles' wonderful suggestion below.

Miles

Bri wrote:

Thanks... :rolleyes:

You're welcome.:rolleyes:

Capt'n Midnight

Word Quirks

RANT there is tons of code in it that should not be there, how much time was wasted on these rather than on getting working stable ?
google for - word easter egg
google for - word site:annoyances.org /RANT