diff --git a/openformats/formats/office_open_xml/parser.py b/openformats/formats/office_open_xml/parser.py
index 7305bc19..78f1b1b7 100644
--- a/openformats/formats/office_open_xml/parser.py
+++ b/openformats/formats/office_open_xml/parser.py
@@ -206,8 +206,10 @@ def compile_paragraph(cls, paragraph, rels_soup, stringset, is_rtl=False):
                 continue
 
             last_element = text_element
-
-            hyperlink_url = cls.get_hyperlink_url(text_element, rels_soup)
+            try:
+                hyperlink_url = cls.get_hyperlink_url(text_element, rels_soup)
+            except MissingParentError:
+                continue
 
             # the text parts of the translation are less that the
             # text parts of the document, so we will just remove