>In some documents, I want to eliminate all hyperlinks - keeping the texts. Is there any systematic way of doing this? I tried, with some success, to Copy, and then "Paste special", and select unformatted text - even works for several consecutive cells in a table. But other formats might get lost, too.

You should be able to do it by iterating through all the hyperlinks in a range and calling the Delete method, which appears to remove the link while leaving the text in place. Rough example to handle entire document (easy to change):

oWd = CREATEOBJECT("Word.Application")
oDoc = oWd.Documents.Open(GETFILE("doc"))
oLinks = oDoc.Range.Hyperlinks
FOR EACH oLink IN oLinks
  oLink.Delete
ENDFOR
oDoc.SaveAs( ...  && or Save() to overwrite

-- Randy