How to delete formatting?

[Walter E.]

I have about 10 long documents with 100 pages each. They were composed, text
only, on Word 97, 2000 and 2002.

1. I would like to selectively clean up some of the formatting that has
crept in over the years. The documents were formatted manually, without
using Styles. After they have been cleaned up I would like to apply uniform
styles. Is this possible?

2. Especially I would like to get rid of a lot of obsolete hyperlinks that
point to non-existing pages

Thanks for any help

 

[Walter E.]

Forgot to mention: I am using Win XP and Word 2002

Thanks

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can remove all direct formatting with Ctrl+A followed by Ctrl+Q (to
remove direct paragraph formatting) and Ctrl+Spacebar (to remove direct font
formatting). Or you can use Ctrl+Shift+N to apply the Normal style.

As for the hyperlinks, if you actually want to delete them entirely, do the
following:

1. Press Alt+F9 (this will display the HYPERLINK field code).

2. Press Ctrl+H to open the Find and Replace dialog.

3. In the "Find what" box, type ^19 HYPERLINK

4. Leave the "Replace with" box empty.

5. Click the Replace All button.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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