Comments on: Eliminating Hyperlinks in Excel X for Mac?

Question: Eliminating Hyperlinks in Excel X for Mac?

Dreama — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:06:30 -0800

Probably ridiculously obvious Excel question: how do I set it so that a URL is never turned into a hyperlink?

It's really as simple as that, I don't want hyperlinks in a spreadsheet ever, I don't ever have a need to click a link in Excel and go to a website. I don't want properly formed URLs that I put into a spreadsheet to turn into hyperlinks at all, but even if it's a sheet by sheet or column by column fix, that's fine, I just can't find out how to do this at all. Oh, I should note that this is using Excel X for Mac.

By: kindachris

kindachris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:13:56 -0800

Four steps:

Select "AutoCorrect Options" from the Tools menu;
Select the tab that says "AutoFormat As You Type";
Uncheck the box that says "Internet and network paths with hyperlinks";
Click OK.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:30:21 -0800

There is no "AutoCorrect Options" in the Tools menu...

By: kindachris

kindachris — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:42:54 -0800

My mistake. Somehow, I was so excited to actually have an answer to a question, I skipped over the Mac part. heh.

I believe that on the Mac version of Excel, it's just "AutoCorrect..." and the box to uncheck is "Internet paths with hyperlinks." Please forgive me if I'm wrong.

By: crosten

crosten — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:58:44 -0800

Here you go:

How to prevent hyperlinks in Excel for the Mac

By: Dreama

Dreama — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:17:12 -0800

Wow, this is ridiculous, I have to create an event handler just to avoid this behavior. Back to Google Docs. Thanks, crosten.

By: fox_terrier_guy

fox_terrier_guy — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:34:58 -0800

I would just use the single quote to start the cell.
'www.google.com

In my version of excel (2000) it works.

I hope this helps.

By: powpow

powpow — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:12:08 -0800

kindachris, I'm a PC user and was dying to know the answer as well so thanks.