# Remove tags

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**Category:** Tips\
**Created:** [February 11, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/remove-tags/11422 "2011-02-11T14:58:37Z")\
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Searching the forum doesn’t seem to bring up an easy answer, or at least I haven’t found one.

I can view the tag definitions in a library by looking at “as Tags” view or bring up the Groups & Tags HUD. Is there a way of removing

1. a tag definition that is either in use or not (if in use, remove the tag from the documents, but not deleting the documents), and

2. a tag from a collection of documents (several highlighted or a group whose documents all contain the tag in question) without removing the tag definition itself and without removing the tag from other documents that are not selected or in the group currently selected.

I’ve tried deleting the tag definition using delete keys without success. The edit menu doesn’t provide a way. Right-click menu doesn’t provide a way. Dragging the tag off the window doesn’t work. What’s irritating is that I’ve been able to do it before, but I don’t know which of the random methods I was trying actually did it. (I’m also not sure whether documents disappeared when a I managed to remove a tag - don’t think so.)

It’s a mystery!

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