Comments on: How to extract urls from MS Word 2007 hyperlinks

By: Knut

Knut — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:41:03 +0000

I have a similar problem, having to extract close to 400 hyperlinks from a Word document.

I found a script on Microsoft’s Technet pages which promises to do exactly that:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee692879.aspx

I have not yet tested it, but crossing my fingers that this what is needed…

The script is as follows:

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)
objWord.Visible = True

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open(“c:\scripts\test.doc”)

Set colHyperlinks = objDoc.Hyperlinks

For Each objHyperlink in colHyperlinks
Wscript.Echo objHyperlink.Address
Wscript.Echo objHyperlink.TextToDisplay
Next

Variants are also given in the article for exporting the hyperlinks to ‘My favourites’ or to an HTML document.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:36:17 +0000

Unfortunately the makros did not work as expected. Before I was going to contact Yves, I tried the following and it worked out well:
I saved the word document as a .html file and opened it with firefox. With the plugin “webdeveloper’s toolbar” you can easily list out every link in a website (click: Information -> View Link Information) and then copy the urls.

I hope this helps a bit.

By: Arnout Lansberg

Arnout Lansberg — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:49:40 +0000

Hello Conrad, I have exactly the same problem using Kathy’s macro ( ‘HYPERLINK’). Did you happen to find the cause/solution yet?

Thanks!

By: Conrad

Conrad — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 07:43:57 +0000

It’s the same in my text.. blue underlined clickable links.. weird.. I will contact Yves and let you know if I have the solution :)
thanks for the advice

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:24:08 +0000

I think it is because you and I were starting from different places. In my original document, the text was already a hyperlink. In other words, you couldn’t see the anchor tag, the text was “clickable.” And what the macro does is make it so you can see the url, because when it’s printed on paper you can’t click on the links. If you want help modifying this macro you should contact Yves, because I don’t know how to change it.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:47:02 +0000

I see.. well the problem is following:
I have a text and a link like an tag in html within my word document. But when applying this macro (using the “create a new macro” command on developer-tab, inserting the script above and pressing play) it just writes the word “(HYPERLINK)” behind everyone of my linked-text. I was expecting the url of the text within the brackets after every link.

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:51:45 +0000

I didn’t change anything in the macro script, Conrad. I’m sorry; I don’t understand what your problem is.

By: Conrad

Conrad — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:34:03 +0000

that is really amazing! I’ve been looking for something writing the url just behind the text, but here it just sais ” (HYPERLINK)”
did you chane anything on the macro script?