Deleting a Range Object in Word gives Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component

Question

object endcollapsed = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd;
Hyperlink hyper;
Range hlinkRange = hyper.Range.Duplicate;                    
hyper.Delete();
hlinkRange .Collapse(ref endcollapsed);

When control comes "hyper.Delete()" method, getting  Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. This is happening for a particular range of hyperlink text in Field Code which inserted to the word from an external application.

StackTrace :  at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Hyperlink.Delete()

Error Code : -2147467259

 

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Answer 1

object endcollapsed = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd;
Hyperlink hyper;
Range hlinkRange = hyper.Range.Duplicate;                    
hyper.Delete();
hlinkRange .Collapse(ref endcollapsed);

When control comes "hyper.Delete()" method, getting  Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component. This is happening for a particular range of hyperlink text in Field Code which inserted to the word from an external application.

StackTrace :  at Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.Hyperlink.Delete()

Error Code : -2147467259

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Answer 2

Hi SelvaOnline,

The Duplicate property of the Range class returns a read-only Range object that represents all the properties of the specified range. So, it is not allowed to call the delete method there.

Finally, I would recommend breaking the following line of code into single ones:

Range hlinkRange = hyper.Range.Duplicate;                    

and release underlying COM objects instantly.

Answer 3

Hi Eugene Astafiev,

Thank you for helping me. I have splitted like this and no luck. Please correct me if i am wrong with my splitting.

Range hlinkRange;

hlinkRange= hyper.Range.Duplicate;

The hyper link which i am trying to delete is FieldCode in word. I am not having any issue with normal hyperlinks. When hyper link in fieldcode, i am getting this exception.

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Answer 4

Hi Eugene Astafiev,

Any thought on my updated query. Thanks a lot for your time and help in advance.

Regards,

Selva

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Answer 5

Hi,

Are you sure the code you provide is a whole code snippet and it can be built successfully.

From your code, I find that you are using an unassigned local variable 'hyper', so I don’t think it will be built successfully.

I try to repro your issue with the code below, and I find the hyperlink can be deleted successfully.

private void HyperlinkTest()
{
    object endcollapsed = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseEnd;

    Hyperlink hyper = Globals.ThisAddIn.Application.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks[1];
    Range hlinkRange = hyper.Range.Duplicate;
    hyper.Delete();
    hlinkRange.Collapse(ref endcollapsed); 

}

To get more effective responses, would you mind sharing your whole code snippet and the sample document to help us to reproduce your issue?

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