removing mysterious hyperlinks

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I created a document in Word 2004 and saved it later in Word for mac 2008 as
a Word 204 document.

Suddenly I see lots of uneditable 6-7 line hyperlinks where legal case
references were. I cant do anything to get rid of them and, horror of
horrors, they print out! I cant even cut and paste them into Notepad and
reimport them. I cant even highlight them.

Does anyone know how these hyperlinks appeared and how to get rid of them
please? I tried saving them as RTF files in Word 2008 (to reimport them
into Word 2004) but they still appear.

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That is probably what is causing it but your solution doesnt seem to work on
a Mac, either using alt F9 or fn-alt F9. I had to remove them all
laboriously manually. In addition I had to recreate all the foot notes as
they had converted wrongly as well. Even worse, in a gigantically large
number of cases throughout the document, the TNR font had been replaced with
something weird called CAMBRIA which is an ugly italic sans serife font
which I also had to laboriously reconvert

I think in future I may have to stick to OpenORG and stay away from versions
of Word which arent compatble with themselves. There is a compatibility
warning before saving as a Word 2004 document!!

"DeanH" <De...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Have you tried to toggle the codes back to text?
> To toggle all field codes in the document in one go, Ctrl+A (to select
> whole
> document), Alt+F9.
> Also check in Tools, Options, View, Field Codes is not checked.
> Not sure about 2008, but hopefully this will help you find the commands in
> your new environment.
> All the best.
> DeanH

[Graham Mayor]

I should start by saying I know nothing about Macs or Word for Mac, but I
can make a few general observations.
1. It sounds as though your hyperlink fields were converted to text in the
process of conversion, hence Alt+F9 did not affect the issue. You may have
been able to remove them using 'replace' -
http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
2. Cambria is one of Microsoft's new fonts, but you discription of the
display issue suggests that you don't have it installed, and thus Word is
making a substitution for an italic Sans Serif font. If the document is
formatted with styles it would be a simple matter to change the font in the
styles to one that you do have installed.
3. Word is backward compatible, but not forward compatible, so it is not
unreasonable that a document saved in an earlier format cannot accommodate
changes made to the application in the later version.

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"Graham Mayor" <gma...@REMOVETHISmvps.org> wrote in message
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>I should start by saying I know nothing about Macs or Word for Mac, but I
>can make a few general observations.
> 1. It sounds as though your hyperlink fields were converted to text in the
> process of conversion, hence Alt+F9 did not affect the issue. You may have
> been able to remove them using 'replace' -
> http://www.gmayor.com/replace_using_wildcards.htm
> 2. Cambria is one of Microsoft's new fonts, but you discription of the
> display issue suggests that you don't have it installed, and thus Word is
> making a substitution for an italic Sans Serif font. If the document is
> formatted with styles it would be a simple matter to change the font in
> the styles to one that you do have installed.
> 3. Word is backward compatible, but not forward compatible, so it is not
> unreasonable that a document saved in an earlier format cannot accommodate
> changes made to the application in the later version.

OK I get your point but it is surely unreasonable that when I create a
document using something as ordinary as Times New Roman, it converts
everything to Cambria so that when I SAVE AS, it doesnt re-convert to the
version which doesnt have Cambria installed as standard. This seems
designed to annoy. Especially when it intentionally locates a font which is
so completely different from TNR!

The conversion process also doesnt seem able to handle something as simple
as a footnote. I acknowledge that there was something sorely lacking in the
old footnote process which didnt seem to recognise that the footnote number
is almost invariably superscripted; but I wonder how they changed the
whole footnote process so that when you SAVE AS back to the old format, the
footnote number itself now disappears completely and is replaced by a
curious square.