take a look at

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/nohyperlinks.html

and

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/nohyperlinks2.html

In article ,
"DougJ" wrote:

When I type in an email address in Excel, it atomatically converts it to a
hyperlink. I don't want it to do that. How do you disable this feature in
Excel 2000? I believe that I was able to do this in Excel 2003 version.