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Excel 2021 construes a text entry as a mailto link
I entered a text entry $xyz@123-4567& in a Excel 2021 cell . Excel 2021 construes it as a mail-to link and will not let me remove the link or format it as a text entry! What gives?
Any assistance/clarifications from the community will be greatly appreciated.
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By default, Excel will treat any value containing an @ as an email address.
You should be able to right-click the cell and select Remove Link from the context menu, but that appears not to work for you. So try the following:
Use the arrow keys to select the cell.
Press Delete.
Enter the value again, but prefix it with an apostrophe (single straight quote):
'$xyz@123-4567&
That forces Excel to treat it as text.
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