Thanks very much Ronni, that did the trick. I found that the second option, pasting into a plain TextEdit document, was better for me. The first option, turning off hyperlinks, did work OK, but it left the former links underlined in blue, which was a bit confusing.
Praise and thanks to the Master..... (better not put Mistress). David / Mar 3 On 26 February 2014 16:18, Ronni Brown <ro...@mac.com> wrote: > Hi David, > > Turn OFF hyperlinking for all URL's in your document in the same Inspector > window (the one with the white arrow on a blue circle). > select 'Make all hyperlinks inactive' > > Does that achieve what you want? > > Or - If you don't care about losing some of the formatting of the content > that you are transferring, you can first 'Paste And Match Style' into a > 'plain text' TextEdit document and then copy from there into your Pages doc. > > Links don't survive Paste and Match Style in TextEdit, as they do in Pages. > > Cheers, > Ronni > > 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 "Thunderbolt" > 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD > > OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks > Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) > > > > On 26 Feb 2014, at 3:21 pm, David Noel <lis...@aoi.com.au> wrote: > > I make a lot of use of Wikipedia, often including short quotes in > articles on my website. These quotes pass through drafts written in > Pages. > > Wikipedia is often very rich in links, a 4-line paragraph may have 20 > or more links in it. I know how to clear an individual link (so > clicking near it does not go off to the linked page in Wikipedia), by > using the Link Inspector in Pages and de-selecting "Enable as a > hyperlink". Is there any way of clearing all the links in a paragraph > or selection in one go? > > Earlier, Ronni gave a great tip for clearing all the font > characteristics of an extract copied from a web page -- first copy > with the usual Command-C, then paste on to the destination with > Command-Option-Shift-C. This strips off all the font characteristics, > but does not clear links. Any suggestions? > > David Noel > - > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
