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How to Change the Default for Automatic URL/Email Linking
- Aug 26, 2023
Ralph_Tomaccio See if you can find something like this dialog under Preferences on a Mac and uncheck the box for "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks"
The other instructions that I gave were not to stop the insertion of hyperlinks but to modify the Style that is used for them so that it has the appearance of ordinary text.
Ralph_Tomaccio The instructions I gave are for Word on a Windows computer and I have never used a Mac.
However, see if you can locate the Hyperlink style by following
- Open your document in Microsoft Word.
- Highlight the text you want to make a heading.
- Under Home tab, click Styles.
- Under the Home tab, look for the Style board.
- Select the appropriate formatting for your text by clicking the desired style. List of styles available:
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP The closest I could come to finding anything about Styles was in this window . . .
Nowhere in there could I find any way to stop automatic hyperlinking. This was found in the Menu bar under "Format/Style..."
- Stefan_BlomAug 26, 2023MVP
Sorry, I'm not a Mac user either. If you can see the Styles pane on a Mac, you should be able to modify styles from that pane. Or use Format > Style if that command exists on the main menu in MacWord.
- Ralph_TomaccioAug 26, 2023Copper Contributor
Stefan_Blom As shown in my previous post, there is nowhere in Format/Styles where I can find any way to stop automatic hyperlinking.
- Aug 26, 2023
Ralph_Tomaccio See if you can find something like this dialog under Preferences on a Mac and uncheck the box for "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks"
The other instructions that I gave were not to stop the insertion of hyperlinks but to modify the Style that is used for them so that it has the appearance of ordinary text.