Clearing all hyperlinks in the manuscript before importing is a great practice to ensure that your content imports correctly.
To remove all hyperlinks in a Word document, you can follow these steps:
Windows
Press Ctrl + A to select all text in the document.
Press Ctrl + Shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks from the selected text.
Mac
Select all text in the document by pressing Command + A.
Press Function + Command + Shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks from the selected text
Alternatively, you can remove individual hyperlinks by right-clicking on the hyperlink and selecting Remove Hyperlink from the context menu 1.
Here’s a video tutorial that demonstrates how to remove hyperlinks from a Word document: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWvYN8_auk