How do I remove the hyperlink in table of contents in Word?

[Guest]

I am writing a book. At the beginning of each chapter I
Insert/IndexTables/Table of Contents. This has hyperlinks to each section in
the chapter. If I cut-and-paste this table into another document, the
hyperlinks are not valid and they create an error.

How do I remove the hyperlinks?

Thanks,
Dr. C

 

[Guest]

Paste the Table of Contents, select the pasted TOC, and press Ctrl+Shift+F9
to remove the hyperlinks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Although this will do what you want, it is not exactly a correct answer to
the question as asked. Ctrl+Shift+F9 will unlink the TOC, which prevents it
from updating. This is vital if you have pasted it into a document in which
the contents it is referencing do not exist. But this has nothing to do with
the hyperlinks, which can be removed by removing the \h switch from the TOC
field code. The page numbers will still be hyperlinked, but the TOC entries
will not. This is the appropriate action for removing hyperlinks when the
TOC is still in its original document.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Removing \h from the TOC in the original document is not a solution to the
stated problem that, "If I cut-and-paste this table into another document,
the hyperlinks are not valid and they create an error."

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

But it is not the fact that they are hyperlinks that is the problem; it is
that the entire TOC field is no longer linked to the bookmarks in the
original document. IOW, your solution is correct but doesn't address the
fact that the OP has incorrectly diagnosed the problem.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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