Thank you -- at least now I know this is a pain to everyone.

Norman Jones wrote:

Hi John,

See JE McGimpsey's notes at:

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


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Regards,
Norman



"John Smith" wrote in message
...

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.