How to remove all bookmarks or selected bookmarks in Word?

Bookmarks in Word documents are a useful tool for marking specific locations or sections, making it easier to navigate and reference. However, there may be times when you need to remove bookmarks, either to clean up the document or to reset certain references. Whether you want to remove all bookmarks or just selected ones, Word provides efficient methods to manage this.

In this tutorial, we will guide you through the steps to remove all bookmarks or selected bookmarks in Word, helping you maintain a clean and organized document.

One click to remove all bookmarks with Kutools for Word

Remove all bookmarks one by one manually

If there are just two or three bookmarks in the document you want to remove, you can manually remove them one by one.

Step 1: Please click Insert > Bookmark. See screenshot:

Step 2: All bookmarks of current document are listed in the drop down box of Bookmark window sort by name or location, select the bookmark you want to remove and click Delete.

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Remove all bookmarks with VBA code

If there are too many bookmarks in the document, it will be tedious to remove them all manually. VBA can make it easier. You can use a VBA as follows:

Step 1: Press Alt+F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window in Word;

Step 2: Click Module from Insert tab;

Step 3: Insert VBA code into the Module window;

Step 4: Click Run button or press F5 to apply VBA directly.

The VBA code to remove all bookmarks from document:

Sub removebookmarks()
Dim bkm As Bookmark
For Each bkm In ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
bkm.Delete
Next bkm
End Sub

One click to remove all bookmarks with Kutools for Word

Kutools for Word provides two fast ways to remove all bookmarks from document. You just need to click once, and Kutools will remove all the bookmarks automatically.

After installing Kutools for Word, please do as below:

Step 1: Please apply this utility by clicking Kutools > More in the Remove group > Remove All Bookmarks. See screenshot:

Step 2: Alternatively, you can remove all bookmarks by clicking Kutools > Remove in Bookmark group. See screenshot:

Note:

In step 1, after you clicking Remove All Bookmarks, all bookmarks from the whole document will be removed automatically.

But in step 2, this Remove utility not only can remove all bookmarks from the whole document, but also can remove all bookmarks from the selected part of document:
Select the paragraphs you want to remove the bookmarks from, and click Kutools > Remove, then a dialog pops out to remind you what bookmarks have been removed.

Demo: Remove All bookmarks or selected bookmarks in Word

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