How do i unlink all of the fields in an MS-Word 2007 document?

[byafuso]

I used to be able to do this in MS-Word 2003 by doing a "select all" and
pressing <ctrl>+<shift>+<F9>, but that doesn't seem to work any more. At
least it doesn't seem to get rid of hyperlinks to button pictures.

Am I doing something wrong, or was this feature disabled in MS-Word 2007?

Thanks

 

[Graham Mayor]

Ctrl+Shift+F9 still unlinks fields in Word 2007
Are you sure that you haven't got a keyboard with alternate switching for
the F keys?

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[Peter T. Daniels]

Can "hyperlinks to button pictures" (whatever they are) be considered
"fields"?

 

[Greg Maxey]

Peter,

Hyperlinks are fields. Select and toggle field codes to see for yourself.

Can "hyperlinks to button pictures" (whatever they are) be considered
"fields"?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I also am curious about "hyperlinks to button pictures." The first thing I
thought of was a MacroButton field with a picture as the prompt, but that's
not a hyperlink (though you can nest a hyperlink within the MacroButton
field as described at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/TblsFldsFms/HLinksInForms.htm).

Or perhaps the reference is to picture bullets? Or a button picture used as
the display text of a hyperlink? I guess that's the most likely. Unlinking
the field would leave the button displayed, but the hyperlink would no
longer work.

I'd be interested to see some clarification on this, though.

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[macropod]

Hi byafuso,

Ctrl-A followed by Ctrl-Shift-F9 will only unlink fields in-line with text in the body of the document. It won't affect fields in
headers, footers, or floating shape objects (eg a hyperlink attached to an image formatted as 'square'). Here's a macro to do the
job for you:

Sub UnlinkAll()
Dim oRng As Range, hLink As Hyperlink
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument
' Loop through Story Ranges and update.
' Note that this may trigger interactive fields (eg ASK and FILLIN).
For Each oRng In .StoryRanges
Do
oRng.Fields.Unlink
For Each hLink In oRng.Hyperlinks
hLink.Delete
Next
Set oRng = oRng.NextStoryRange
Loop Until oRng Is Nothing
Next
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub