Delete 'invisible' hyperlink tags imported from Word Doc

I’m in the process of formatting a long document provided to me in Word. I thought I was being clever by mapping the styles from Word to Indesign to save me some formatting time, which it did a little. Unfortunately one thing I could not have foreseen was that Indesign also brought in all these ‘invisible’ hyperlink tags that don’t actually link to anything. The only reason I discovered this was when I tried to add hyperlinks to certain text and it wouldn’t let me, even though nothing was displayed in the Hyperlinks panel. Upon looking at Story Editor I see hundreds of these hyperlink tags throughout the document which filled me with terror. The prospect of starting again from scratch isn’t something I want to even think about.

I’m hoping someone here may have also come across this issue and found a way to strip all those stray hyperlink tags out of the document.

Many thanks.