Hyperlinks in Word documents are clickable links that allow readers to navigate to a website or another document. While hyperlinks can provide valuable supplemental information, sometimes they can also be distracting or unnecessarily annoying, so you may want to remove them. In this article, you will learn how to remove hyperlinks from a Word document in C# and VB.NET using Spire.Doc for .NET.
Install Spire.Doc for .NET
To begin with, you need to add the DLL files included in the Spire.Doc for.NET package as references in your .NET project. The DLL files can be either downloaded from this link or installed via NuGet.
PM> Install-Package Spire.Doc
Remove All the Hyperlinks in a Word Document
To delete all hyperlinks in a Word document at once, you'll need to find all the hyperlinks in the document and then create a custom method FlattenHyperlinks() to flatten them. The following are the detailed steps.
- Create a Document object.
- Load a sample Word document using Document.LoadFromFile() method.
- Find all the hyperlinks in the document using custom method FindAllHyperlinks().
- Loop through the hyperlinks and flatten all of them using custom method FlattenHyperlinks().
- Save the result document using Document.SaveToFile() method.
- C#
- VB.NET
using System.Drawing;
using Spire.Doc;
using Spire.Doc.Documents;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Spire.Doc.Fields;
namespace removeWordHyperlink
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//Create a Document instance
Document doc = new Document();
//Load a sample Word document
doc.LoadFromFile("Hyperlink.docx");
//Find all hyperlinks
List<Field> hyperlinks = FindAllHyperlinks(doc);
//Flatten all hyperlinks
for (int i = hyperlinks.Count - 1; i >= 0; i--)
{
FlattenHyperlinks(hyperlinks[i]);
}
//Save the result document
doc.SaveToFile("RemoveHyperlinks.docx", FileFormat.Docx);
}
//Create a method FindAllHyperlinks() to get all the hyperlinks from the sample document
private static List<Field> FindAllHyperlinks(Document document)
{
List<Field> hyperlinks = new List<Field>();
//Iterate through the items in the sections to find all hyperlinks
foreach (Section section in document.Sections)
{
foreach (DocumentObject sec in section.Body.ChildObjects)
{
if (sec.DocumentObjectType == DocumentObjectType.Paragraph)
{
foreach (DocumentObject para in (sec as Paragraph).ChildObjects)
{
if (para.DocumentObjectType == DocumentObjectType.Field)
{
Field field = para as Field;
if (field.Type == FieldType.FieldHyperlink)
{
hyperlinks.Add(field);
}
}
}
}
}
}
return hyperlinks;
}
//Create a method FlattenHyperlinks() to flatten the hyperlink field
private static void FlattenHyperlinks(Field field)
{
int ownerParaIndex = field.OwnerParagraph.OwnerTextBody.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field.OwnerParagraph);
int fieldIndex = field.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field);
Paragraph sepOwnerPara = field.Separator.OwnerParagraph;
int sepOwnerParaIndex = field.Separator.OwnerParagraph.OwnerTextBody.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field.Separator.OwnerParagraph);
int sepIndex = field.Separator.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field.Separator);
int endIndex = field.End.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field.End);
int endOwnerParaIndex = field.End.OwnerParagraph.OwnerTextBody.ChildObjects.IndexOf(field.End.OwnerParagraph);
FormatFieldResultText(field.Separator.OwnerParagraph.OwnerTextBody, sepOwnerParaIndex, endOwnerParaIndex, sepIndex, endIndex);
field.End.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.RemoveAt(endIndex);
for (int i = sepOwnerParaIndex; i >= ownerParaIndex; i--)
{
if (i == sepOwnerParaIndex && i == ownerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = sepIndex; j >= fieldIndex; j--)
{
field.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.RemoveAt(j);
}
}
else if (i == ownerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = field.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.Count - 1; j >= fieldIndex; j--)
{
field.OwnerParagraph.ChildObjects.RemoveAt(j);
}
}
else if (i == sepOwnerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = sepIndex; j >= 0; j--)
{
sepOwnerPara.ChildObjects.RemoveAt(j);
}
}
else
{
field.OwnerParagraph.OwnerTextBody.ChildObjects.RemoveAt(i);
}
}
}
//Create a method FormatFieldResultText() to remove the font color and underline format of the hyperlinks
private static void FormatFieldResultText(Body ownerBody, int sepOwnerParaIndex, int endOwnerParaIndex, int sepIndex, int endIndex)
{
for (int i = sepOwnerParaIndex; i <= endOwnerParaIndex; i++)
{
Paragraph para = ownerBody.ChildObjects[i] as Paragraph;
if (i == sepOwnerParaIndex && i == endOwnerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = sepIndex + 1; j < endIndex; j++)
{
FormatText(para.ChildObjects[j] as TextRange);
}
}
else if (i == sepOwnerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = sepIndex + 1; j < para.ChildObjects.Count; j++)
{
FormatText(para.ChildObjects[j] as TextRange);
}
}
else if (i == endOwnerParaIndex)
{
for (int j = 0; j < endIndex; j++)
{
FormatText(para.ChildObjects[j] as TextRange);
}
}
else
{
for (int j = 0; j < para.ChildObjects.Count; j++)
{
FormatText(para.ChildObjects[j] as TextRange);
}
}
}
}
//Create a method FormatText() to change the color of the text to black and remove the underline
private static void FormatText(TextRange tr)
{
//Set the text color to black
tr.CharacterFormat.TextColor = Color.Black;
//Set the text underline style to none
tr.CharacterFormat.UnderlineStyle = UnderlineStyle.None;
}
}
}
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