How to prevent/disable automatic hyperlinks in Excel?

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As we all known, Excel create clickable hyperlinks automatically when we input the web addresses into cells. Maybe, sometimes, this is somewhat annoying. Today, I will introduce some quick tricks for you to prevent automatic hyperlinks in Excel.

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Prevent automatic hyperlinks with Autocorrect Options in Excel

Easy Steps to Make Excel Hyperlinks Working. Excel Details: Summary: Here is a step-by-step guide with methods to resolve ‘Hyperlinks not working in Excel’ issue. If nothing works, try using Stellar Repair for Excel software to recover your workbook with hyperlinks and all the data intact. Hyperlinks Not Working in Excel for Office 365 ProPlus. Excel Details: Hyperlinks Not Working in Excel for Office 365 ProPlus Hello, I am using Excel at my work and within my spreadsheet are hyperlinks that point to various different types of files (.pdf,.msg, etc.). The spreadsheet is saved on a shared drive - serverfolderfolder2folder3folder4folder5filename.xlsx hyperlinks not. In an Excel workbook, unspecified paths to link destination files are by default relative to the location of the active workbook. You can set a different base address to use by default so that each time that you create a link to a file in that location, you only have to specify the file name, not the path, in the Insert Hyperlink dialog box. The HYPERLINK function creates a shortcut that jumps to another location in the current workbook, or opens a document stored on a network server, an intranet, or the Internet. When you click a cell that contains a HYPERLINK function, Excel jumps to the location listed, or opens the document you specified.

My EXEC is Office 2016. It does not contain the same uncheck boxes as yours indicated. I do have the item in the Registry for DisableHyperlinkWarning set to 1. Still no difference I get that warning message anytime I open a hyperlink My spreadsheet has hyperlinks which open other Excel files in the same directory. So its opening another.

The build-in Autocorrect Options in Excel can help you to disable the automatic hyperlinks when you enter the web address. Do as this:

1. In Excel 2010/2013, click File > Options and in Excel 2007, click Office button > Excel Options to open the Excel Options dialog.

2. In the Excel Options dialog box, click Proofing from the left pane, and click AutoCorrect Options in the right section. See screenshot:

3. And then in the AutoCorrect dialog, click AutoFormat As You Type tab, and uncheck Internet and network paths with hyperlinks option under Replace as you type section, see screenshot:

4. After finishing the settings, click OK > OK to close the dialogs.

5. And now when you enter your web address into a cell, the internet address will not become clickable hyperlink. See screenshot: Open kicad_pcb file online.

Note: After disabling this feature, all the web addresses in the worksheet will not be converted to the clickable hyperlinks any more.

Prevent automatic hyperlinks with shortcut keys in Excel

But sometimes, you need to leave the hyperlink feature on and just need to prevent some specific hyperlinks, you can use the following shortcut keys to undo the hyperlink immediately after it's created.

1. Type your web address and press Enter key.

2. Then press Ctrl+Z immediately. And the clickable hyperlink has been converted to the plain text.

Convert plaint text to hyperlink with Kutools for Excel

In sometimes, you have a list of texts which want to convert to linkable hyperlinks, in Excel, there is no quick way can help you, however, with Kutools for Excel’s Convert Hyperlinks utility to quickly convert plain texts to linkable hyperlinks.

After free installing Kutools for Excel, please do as below:

Led edit 2014 software download for windows 10 64 bit. 1. Select texts that you want to convert to clickable hyperlinks, and click Kutools > Link > Convert Hyperlinks. See screenshot:

2. Then in the popping dialog, check Cell contents replace hyperlinks addresses option, and then check Convert source range checkbox. See screenshot:

3. Click Ok. Now the plain texts are converted to linkable hyperlinks.

Tip: If you want to keep the plain texts after conversion, you can uncheck Convert source range in the Convert Hyperlink dialog, and select a cell to put out the converted results.

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  My AutoCorrect Options in Excel 2010 is grayed out and not clickable, smh..

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    Hello, if your autocorrect option is gray, maybe you have a mixed Microsoft Office version installed, you only need to copy the WINWORD.exe file from Office12 (or other number)folder to Office14 folder, and restart Word. Hope it helps.
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  thank you, I just intall win10 and need to change re-setup excel
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  Does changing this setting apply only to your session or is the option change saved to the spreadsheet itself. For example, I have a very large sheet used by multiple people, and we have data in it that Excel always wants to auto-convert to a hyperlink (not wanted). So if I change this option, am I doing it only for my self, or will this change apply to anyone (preferred option) that tries to edit this same spreadsheet?

Hyperlink Not Working In Excel 2013

Fanie has a workbook with two worksheets. In the first worksheet she created hyperlinks to the second worksheet. Those hyperlinks worked fine until Fanie saved and reopened the workbook. The second time the hyperlinks were all gray and would no longer work, and she's at a loss as to why this occurred.

There are a few things you can try here. First, you need to make sure that the problem isn't due to something you inadvertently did in your workbook. Check to make sure that you didn't rename the second worksheet—the one that is the target of the hyperlinks. When you create hyperlinks, each of them references the name of the worksheet you specify as the target. If you later rename the worksheet, then the hyperlinks may not work as expected. If this is the case, you will need to either change the name of the worksheet back to its original name, or you will need to recreate the hyperlinks to point to the renamed worksheet.

If that is not the problem, you may want to turn off an option in Excel that causes the program to check hyperlinks whenever the workbook is saved. (There have been some reports that Excel disables the links a bit too early sometimes, which could be the behavior that Fanie is seeing.) Do this by following these steps:

1. Display the Excel Options dialog box. (In Excel 2007 click the Office button and then click Excel Options. In Excel 2010 and Excel 2013 display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.)
2. At the left side of the dialog box click Advanced.
3. Scroll through the available options until you see the General section. (See Figure 1.)

Figure 1. The Advanced options of the Excel Options dialog box.

4. Click on the Web Options button. Excel displays the Web Options dialog box.
5. Make sure the Files tab is selected. (See Figure 2.)

Figure 2. The Files tab of the Web Options dialog box.

6. Clear the Update Links on Save check box.
7. Click on OK to close the Web Options dialog box.
8. Click on OK to close the Excel Options dialog box.

Hyperlink Not Working In Excel 2016

Finally, the problem may not even be related to Excel it is possible that the program is getting a bit confused if you changed your default browser after you originally created the hyperlinks—especially if you deleted whatever browser used to be your default. If you think this may be the root of the problem, the only thing you can do is to recreate the hyperlinks.