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Microsoft Word: HTML hyperlinks

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Shortcut to delete all html hyperlinks from a Word document Sometimes when you copy text from a webpage, (which could be breaching copyright laws) there will be html hyperlinks included in the text. If you paste this text to a Word Document the hyperlinks will now be in your document. These links will lead to wherever the original author intended. Why would you want to delete all html hyperlinks from a Word document? For example if you copy text from  www.wikipedia.org  to paste into a Word document it usually has a million html links in just a small paragraph. See my screenshot below. If you just wanted to quote a definition from the website it is common courtesy to leave a back link to the original author, but not as many as shown in this screenshot. Note that I started to underline the html links in red to show you how many there is in this block of text. There were three in the first line. How to delete a html hyperlink from a word document? To remove a h...

Microsoft Word: save picture, logo, clipart

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How to save a picture, logo, or clip art from a word document? Have you ever been sent a word document that contained a picture, logo, or clip art that you needed to save to your computer? It might be a picture that you want to use on another document or you might want to save the picture so you can send it through email. People find this puzzling because you cannot just simply save the picture as it is really imbedded into the document itself. Of course there is always a way around this… Below is an example of a word document that has a logo in it that I might want to save. How to save a picture, logo, or clipart from a word document to your computer: The usual way to save a picture is to right click on it and choose save or save picture as…However as you can see in the screenshot below, there is no option to do this. Therefore we are going to copy the picture and paste it into another program. In this tutorial we will paste this logo in mspaint which is a free progr...