You may find that you generally want the links and that it is easier to
remove the ones you don't want rather than changing your autocorrect options.

Three manual methods of deleting the unwanted hyperlinks
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...#DelHyperlinks
Ctrl+Z to immediate removal of the link, if you catch it in time
Ctrl+K to edit the hyperlink and remove
copying an empty cell then using Edit, Paste Special, Add on a selection

and with using VBA code
Use of a macro two such macros and more details on the above at
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...#DelHyperlinks
or someone even suggested you copy or paste into the intermediate window
Selection.Hyperlinks.Delete
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP -- Excel
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Vista / Excel 20007: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/vista/vista.htm




"David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk wrote in message ...
Tools/ AutoCorrect Options/ AutoFormat as you Type: uncheck the one about
hyperlinks for internet and network paths.
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David Biddulph

"jknapp1005" wrote in message
...
I have a friend at work who was using Excel (2003) and was typing using the
@
character for something totally unrelated to an email hyperlink and Excel
turned all of the cells in her spreadsheet using the @ symbol into
hyperlinks. I used replace to get rid of the "@" and turn it into "at",
but
it remained a hyperlink. I got rid of the hyperlink by right clicking each
cell and deleting it. Is there someway to get Excel to automatically not
assume you are typing in a hyperlink?
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