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How to remove "friendlier link" formatting in Outlook?
Natalie Swallow Hello, we have also struggled with this new feature and the way it has affected our company wide email communications and templated newsletters. Fortunately, we found a simple solution by updating the text styles.
Select your (not so) 'friendly link' and navigate to the format text styles pane. It should by default automatically have 'smart link' detected. Right click and 'modify'. You should then be able to fully customize the styles to match your standard hyperlinks. If the smart link style is not automatically selected, you will need to expand the styles options, show all styles, and manually select 'smart link'.
This solution will not fix any access issues and you will still have to manually remove the small icon. Hope this helps!
PierceGrohosky thank you - this is so helpful! How did you remove the small icon? I can't seem to select it.
amberholloway410 I found a good method in an online video. Use Find and Replace (Ctrl+H) and then carrot, "g," space, to replace the graphic with [blank].
PierceGrohosky - I accidentally discovered today that when you click on the icon it will ask you a question about the link not belonging to you. If I click Ignore, that little icon goes away.
