problem with Word 2000

I am lost the minute someone suggests a macro, but I do understand what you mean, and Im sure it would work, but at my level of macro familiarity it could cause far more problems than it solves.

The instructions are in Word, for removing hyperlinks--each time you have to open the insert panel, select hyperlink, select remove hyperlink. you cannot select any quantity of text when you do this, it only removes the hyperlink in the line ahead of the spot where you have the cursor.

Im wondering if just doing a copy and paste into a new document would do the trick. I would like to know how the stuff got into that shape in the first place, however.
Word does not handle the hyperlink function well, i've found, and it occasionally does some very strange things to my documents. I try to avoid it whenever I can, for this reason. This time I guess it just got away from the guards. *g*

I couldnt fix it, but in searching a spare drive that I use for backups of the partition where my work files are kept, I realized that it hadnt been backed up lately, and by golly there was an older version of just this file, unwebified. so I did a quick switch, and deleted the old file. new one works fine.

I'd still like to know how half of it got corrupted, though. I can see the whole thing being involved, but HALF?

Shows the usefulness of backup.

Kees

actually I have a duplicate of that drive (on this computer my work files are kept in D and my backup is kept on L), and I managed to find a previous version that didnt have the munged section.
Good advice, and yes, I did have a backup in place. whew

Reloading Word from the original discs would have meant hours of fiddling to get it to the point, physically, where I have this one, as to operating preferences. But the backup saved me.