Hi Sam
If you just want (10@250) in a cell, just force it to text by putting a
single quote in front of it like this ('10@250). Excel won't display the
quote so you will see (10@250) in the cell without the hyperlink. You can
use the same trick to type numbers with leading zeros such as postcodes or
product numbers in cells. If you type (0186) it will generally display as
(186) unless you do some special formatting. But if you type('0186) it will
display correctly as (0186).
Type ('www.microsoft.com) and it will show the URL without creating the
hyperlink.
In these examples, the brackets just indicate the cell - don't type them.

"Sam Rothstein" wrote:

Excel 2000 automaticly hyperlinks, and I can't turn it off. I despise this
"feature" more than Clippy himself. I am not a "newbie" and I DON'T want my
spreadsheets to do things for me without asking. At the least, it should be
something I can turn off.

I get stuck manually undoing every hyperlink that is instead a quantity I'm
shipping (eg: 10@250). It aggrivates me daily. Thanks!

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