deleting hyperlinks from cell tables

[SEW Region Magazine]

I have managed to put a hyperlink over 4 cells in a table in Affinity publisher. How do I delete it?

 

Edited July 2, 2020 by SEW Region Magazine

[Callum]

Hi SEW Region Magazine,

Welcome to the forums

You should just need to right click the object with the hyperlink applied then go to  Interactive > Delete Hyperlink. If this doesn't work please could you provide a copy of the file?

Thanks

C

[SEW Region Magazine]

Thank you for your reply

 Due to the sensitivity of the document I have deleted the original but have re-generated one using fictitious names and addresses. On the original I produc ed in no "No Style" 

untitled.afpub

[R C-R]

From what I can tell from the provided .afpub file, in each row there is not a single hyperlink over 4 cells but instead 4 individual email hyperlinks, one in each cell.

So to remove them I think you could highlight all the text in a cell, right-click & use Interactive > Delete Hyperlink, but you would have to do this separately for each cell, which would be extremely tedious & time consuming.

Somewhat less time consuming is to open the Hyperlink Studio panel to show all the hyperlinks, where you can see that there are 4 links associated with each name:

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any reliable way to select more than one of them at a time, but if you start with the first listed item selected & then click the "Remove Hyperlink" button (the trashcan icon at the bottom), as the link is deleted the next one is automatically selected. So if you just keep clicking that button repeatedly, you will eventually remove all the links.

[carl123]

3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

Unfortunately there does not seem to be any reliable way to select more than one of them at a time,

 

Windows allows you to click on the first one then shift-click on the last one to select them all

Clicking the trashcan icon then deletes them all

Can MACs not do that?

[SEW Region Magazine]

 Thank  you - I will know not to make that mistake in future

[R C-R]

16 minutes ago, carl123 said:

Can MACs not do that?

At least on my Mac that does not work. ☹️