How to Remove the Underline from a Hyperlink in a Word Document

Syncfusion® Essential® DocIO is a .NET Word library used to create, read, edit, and convert Word documents programmatically without Microsoft Word or interop dependencies. Using this library, you can remove the underline from a Hyperlink in Word document using C#.

You can find a Hyperlink fields using the FindAllItemsByProperty API.

Steps to Remove the underline from a Hyperlink in Word document:

1. Create a new .NET Core console application project.
   
   
2. Install the Syncfusion.DocIO.Net.Core NuGet package as a reference to your project from NuGet.org.
   
   

4. Include the following namespaces in the Program.cs file:
   C#

using Syncfusion.DocIO.DLS;
using Syncfusion.DocIO;
using Syncfusion.Drawing;

4. Use the following code example to remove the underline from a Hyperlink in Word document.
   C#

using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"Data/Input.docx"), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite))
{
   //Load an existing Word document into DocIO instance
   using (WordDocument document = new WordDocument(fileStream, FormatType.Automatic))
   {
       // Find all hyperlink fields in the document
       List<Entity> entities = document.FindAllItemsByProperty(EntityType.Field,"FieldType", "FieldHyperlink") as List<Entity>;
       if (entities != null)
       {
           // Process each hyperlink field
           foreach (IEntity hyperlinkField in entities)
           {
               IEntity currentEntity = hyperlinkField;
               // Iterate through sibling items until reaching the field end
               while (currentEntity.NextSibling != null)
               {
                   currentEntity = currentEntity.NextSibling;
                   // Remove underline from text ranges
                   if (currentEntity is WTextRange textRange)
                   {
                       textRange.CharacterFormat.UnderlineStyle = UnderlineStyle.None;
                   }
                   // Stop at field end marker
                   else if (currentEntity is WFieldMark fieldMark && fieldMark.Type == FieldMarkType.FieldEnd)
                       break;
               }
           }
       }
       //Create file stream
       using (FileStream outputStream = new FileStream(Path.GetFullPath(@"../../../Output/Result.docx"), FileMode.Create, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
       {
           //Save the Word document to file stream
           document.Save(outputStream, FormatType.Docx);
       }
   }
}

You can download a complete working sample to Remove the underline from a Hyperlink in Word document from the GitHub.

By executing the program, you will get the Word document as follows:

Take a moment to peruse the documentation where you can find basic Word document processing options along with the features like mail merge, merge, split, and compare Word documents, find and replace text in the Word document, protect the Word documents, and most importantly, the PDF and Image conversions with code examples.

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how remove the underline from a Hyperlink in Word document.

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