Word – Select text except hyperlinks

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Sometimes, I would like to change the color of the text in a Word document without affecting the color of hyperlinks. If I simply press CTRL+A and change font color, then the color of hyperlinks is changed too and it becomes no longer possible to discern them from regular text.

This happens a lot when I paste from an external page and I would like the regular font to appear black, but if I use press CTRL+A to select the pasted text, then the hyperlinks turn black as well.

Is there a way to highlight all regular text in a document without manually going through and changing the color of intervals of regular text between hyperlinks?

Note: I don't want to change the style or theme color for regular font; I want to simply change font color excepting hyperlinks. I foresee this (if possible) being done by somehow being able to select text, omitting hyperlinks, or change color, omitting hyperlinks.

Best Answer

After setting the font settings, run this macro to reset the font style for all hyperlinks.

Sub RestoreHyperlinkStyle()
    Dim hl As Hyperlink
    For Each hl In ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks
        hl.Range.Style = wdStyleHyperlink
    Next
End Sub

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Macos – Mac OS X – shortcut for changing text color

Although it's not exactly what you want it can set the text colour to the automatic colour of microsoft word. It's a small applescript code.

tell application "Microsoft Word"
    tell active window
        set color index of font object of text object of selection to auto
    end tell
end tell

Open up Applescript Editor and save it to ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Word Script Menu Items as what ever you want then open up System Preferences.

In System Preferences go to Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts The press the + sign at under the list of shortcuts. Next select Microsoft word from the application drop down. For the Menu item name it exactly what you called your script minus the extension. Finally choose a shortcut and enjoy.

Change style and color of text with text along path (gimp)

The red text doesn't actually exist yet as pixels! What you are seeing is the GIMP path created when you select "Text to Path." To make the text appear, click on an image layer (not the layer with your text box). Then go to the Paths panel and click on the path named after your text. Then select Edit | Stroke Path or hit the swirly+paintbrush at the bottom of the Paths panel. Pick how heavy you want your text and press "Stroke" to render the pixels of your text-on-path.

Example: After text-to-path, I see this:

After text to path

Note the red "foo bar bat," just like you are seeing. I go to Layers and select the Background, which is an image layer:

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I then go to Paths, select the path, and hit Stroke:

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And voila!

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Per your followup question, the easiest way I know of to fill the text is to right-click on the text path in the Paths panel and choose "Path to Selection" (or hit the red square fifth from left at the bottom of the Paths panel). That will select the interior of your letters. You can then select one of the Fill options from the Edit menu. For example, after a fill with foreground color:

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(note that the selection marching ants are visible in this screenshot).

Remember to pick the order (stroke then fill, or fill then stroke) based on the effect you want. The fill will overwrite the inner half of the stroke since the stroke is centered on the path.

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