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WD97: Deleting Hyperlinks from Collection Does Not Delete All

Article ID: 165714

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q165714

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Visual Basic for Applications "For Each...Next" statement to delete Hyperlinks using the Hyperlinks collection, not all members of the collection are deleted.

WORKAROUND

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Instead of using the "For Each...Next" statement to remove the hyperlinks from your document, as in the following example:

   Sub RemoveHyperLinks()
      For Each h In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
         h.Delete
      Next
      MsgBox ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Count
   End Sub

use the "Do...Until...Loop" statement to remove the hyperlinks:

   Sub RemoveHyperLinks()
      With ActiveDocument
         Do Until .Hyperlinks.Count = 0
            .Hyperlinks(1).Delete
         Loop
         MsgBox .Hyperlinks.Count
      End With
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

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