Hi!

For XL2002/2003 you can turn this feature off in Tools/Autocorrect.

For other versions, see JE's instructions:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/e...yperlinks.html

and

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/e...perlinks2.html


He's written from a MacXL perspective, but the concepts translate
easily to WinXL.

Perhaps, the easiest way is to precede the entry with an '


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How do I opt out of the automatic creation of hyperlinks in
Excel? I know how to remove them once they are created,
but I don't want to have to do that. Instead, I want the
default to be that Excel just treats it as text, and not a
URL or email address. How do I do that? Thanks.