Microsoft Word Tip of the Week: When You’ve Had Enough Linking…
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If you’re a regular Word user, I’m guessing you’ve noticed just how much the program looooooves to make a blue, underlined hyperlink out of every single email address and website address you type into your documents. Sometimes that functionality is handy. Other times, it’s a downright pain in the butt.
A neat tip I recently learned allows you to easily remove every single one of those active, blue, underlined links from your Word document–no matter how long your document is. To remove all the links, first hit Ctrl+A to select all the text in your document. After you’ve let go of the Ctrl and A keys, press Ctrl-Shift-F9. Done.
If you’d like to keep Word from auto-hyperlinking text in the future, just click on Tools in the menu at the top of the screen and select AutoCorrect Options. Next, click the tab that reads “AutoFormat as You Type“. Once you’ve made sure that the box next to “Internet and network paths with hyperlinks” is unchecked, go ahead and click the AutoFormat tab and clear that same checkbox again.
You’re now good to go.
