If you sort an online handle into Microsoft Word, you’ll rapidly understand that one thing is a bit off. Although you didn’t select it your self, the textual content turns into blue and underlined. If you click on the hyperlink, it robotically opens in your browser. For those that principally print paperwork on paper, that is an annoying characteristic, however happily it may be switched off.

If a textual content has been become a hyperlink, you may proper click on and choose Remove hyperlink. If you do that, the blue shade and underlining may even disappear.

It’s additionally doable to utterly take away the characteristic that robotically turns URLs into hyperlinks whenever you sort them in:

1. Press File, Options, Language management. (If you may’t discover Options, you could first must press More).
2. Press the Options for autocorrect and choose the tab Auto format on enrollment. Uncheck the characteristic Internet addresses and community addresses with hyperlinks.
3. Switch to the tab Autoformat tab and do the identical there.

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This article was translated from Swedish to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.