In several worksheets I store email addresses but XL insists on making
them links. So, if I ever select the cell, it tries to open Outlook
(which I won't let on my machine), etc. It takes me 30 seconds to get
control back. I've looked everywhere in Options but I haven't found
anything to stop this. My workaround is to type the email address in an
unused cell, then copy it and Paste Special into the target cell with
"values only". What a pain.

Can you gurus please help? By the way, I did look hard and long for
this in earlier posts -- I can't be the only one hassled by this.

Thanks much.