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francopfohl
francopfohl
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January 30, 2025
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Random text appearing when hovering over links in PDF - how to delete??

  • January 30, 2025
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This PDF was created from a PowerPoint in MS 365, which I assume is the first problem, but now when opened in Acrobat Pro, these links to a community fundraiser (yes, for SuperBowl Sunday) are appearing. How do I get rid of them? The usual little hand appears over the link, but it did not come through in the screen capture -- this rollover text appears on all of the links.

 

Thank you for any help you can provide in getting rid of / turning off this feature!

 

 


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creative explorer
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creative explorerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2025

@francopfohl those are the hyperlinks from your PowerPoint file. You can easily remove those hyperlinks in Acrobat.

1. For example, here is a copy of my copyright document



2. If I hover over the hyperlink, and right-click, I can delete the hyperlink as shown


3. And now when I hover of the PDF, the hyperlink is gone

 

 

 

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francopfohl
francopfohlAuthor
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January 31, 2025

Thank you very much @creative explorer for the instructions. However, I do not want to delete the hyperlink, just the rollover text. Ironically, after I did delete the hyperlink just as a test, the rollover text still appears AND in other places on the PDF where I hover !! Sheeeeesh! Any advice would be appreciated -- this is going out to a church audience! 🙂 Thank you again!

creative explorer
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creative explorerCommunity Expert
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February 1, 2025

@francopfohl I personally don't think you can as it's known as the tooltip or alternate text — it's an accessibility reason why this is set-up I believe. You mentioned that there are other places in the PDF, and it might be an invisible hyperlink which one could set-up too! 

I did look at the tools, and I tried to remove the hyperlink roll-over, and it didn't allow me to do so. You might find a third party app that could strip out all the active hyperlinks? 

Sorry!

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